Indigenous tribesman tour of the UK
The diary of an indigenous tribesman in England - Javier Dril Bustamante launches Cool Earth's CO2 campaign before heading to climate change talks in Copenhagen. Dec 2009
Franticly marking the vast canopy trees, Javier Dril Bustamante rallies the people of Cutivireni, the loggers are encroaching at the boundaries of their rainforest territory in the Peruvian Amazon. Smearing dye on these hardwood giants is a clear message that this land belongs to a community. There's relief as the message is conveyed and the loggers move away. But just weeks later the whirr of chainsaws and the crack of timber before it falls is unmistakable. Just 5km from their protected land deforestation advances.
It's this experience that drives Javier to come to England then Copenhagen to help Cool Earth launch their latest campaign.
LONDON, Wednesday 2ND December 2009
Javier Bustamante at Mary Magdalen's Primary School
Mary Magdalen's Primary School, London
Javier Dril Bustamante with the Cool Earth team & Ecotribal give a rainforest assembly to primary school children. Schools can play a big part in, the fight against climate change and young rainforest rescuers can make a real difference. Royal photographer, Arthur Edward has offered to capture the day on camera.
House of Commons
Javier, Cool Earth director, Matthew Owen, Carlos Montenegro and Dilwyn Jenkins from Ecotribal, meet in the House of Commons to see Rt Hon Frank Field MP. Frank is one of the founders of Cool Earth, believing that individuals can save rainforest through sponsorship and leapfrog the log jam of political debate. 650 MP's are also invited to meet Javier and discuss how avoided deforestation needs to be high on the climate talks agenda.
CORNWALL Thursday 3rd December
Morning: Kennall Vale School, Ponsanooth, Cornwall
After the bustle of London Javier heads to calmer Cornwall. The climate is challenging for Javier, who's been supplied with plenty of coats and jumpers for his stay. Today is an assembly for a Cornish primary school. The morning will involve face painting, explanations about climate change and the canopy trees.
Javier with pupils at Kennall Vale School
Mid Morning: Cornwall College Camborne
Staff and students gather in the lecture theatre to learn more about the small charity doing big things right on their campus. Not many people know that Cool Earth is based in Camborne. Now's our chance to tell the people of Cornwall how they can get involved with Cool Earth.
Afternoon
Javier Dril Bustamante 
with Cool Earth and Ecotribal, travel to Eden to take part in a debate on climate change for the BBC programme, One Planet. Javier gets to wander through the tropical biomes and see trees under the cover of a giant greenhouse.
More on the debate:
Presented by Mike Williams the panel includes John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace; Vicki Pope of the UK Met Office climate change centre; the Danish sceptical environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg; Changhua Wu, the Greater China director of the Climate Group; Nigel Purvis, former adviser to two US Secretary of States, Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell and a deputy head of the US climate change negotiating team and founder and president of Climate Advisers. And businessman Tim Smit, who created the Eden Project. Interventions were made by indigenous tribesman, Javier Dril Bustamante and Yvo de Boer, the man in charge of the Copenhagen process; President Mohammed Nasheed of the Maldives; and the former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan.
Friday 4th December
Morning: Cool Earth Day at Saltash.net Community School
Javier visits Saltash.net school Cool Earth spends the day introducing Saltash.net community school to their new campaign Tree for a £ with the help of, Javier Dril Bustamante and Ecotribal. Saltash.net are getting in the spirit of the day by making videos on climate change, having a green mufty day, composing music and dedicating the day to exploring climate change. Each pupil has pledged to sponsor a tree which is really fantastic. Their Ass. Head Dan Roberts was one of the first teachers to go on the Cool Earth teacher fellowship and stayed with Javier and Cool Earth in the Amazonian rainforest.
Afternoon: Met office, the Hadley Centre
Javier, Cool Earth and Ecotribal have a tour around the Hadley centre with Climate Impact Scientist, Gillian Kay.
