RALPH WENGE, CNN ANCHOR: For decades, hundreds of tributaries around Brazil's Amazon River have been exploited for their rich fisheries. Well now a campaign is under way to prevent the extinction of water life in the Amazon. It began with local volunteers near Manaos (ph) trying to preserve their own community's tributaries. Brazil's Amazon Network has their story.</s>CRISTINA MAGDA, AMAZON NETWORK (voice-over): People of</s>JON MUNOZ, NATURE INSPECTOR (through translator): It was the community's own idea to preserve the lakes. The intention was to guarantee our food. As part of the project, the border of the lakes will be reforest. All people from the region participate some way of the preservation plan. The agents who work begins early. They navigate by the lakes, looking for possible invader, fishing boats or people from other places which aren't allowed to fish. It has come on to catch some non-authorized people fishing in the lakes, even though the warnings are everywhere in the forest.</s>MUNOZ (through translator): The Brazilian Environmental Institute grants the agents authorization to act by confiscating products from unauthorized fisherman. Their work mainly is to prevent fisherman using their nets in the water.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): We don't argue with fishermen, we just discuss the laws. If they obey us, we are friendly. If not, we call the authorities in Manaos or near here. If they cannot control the situation, we call the police. There are only 19 agents who work to government in the Amazon. The volunteer's help is essential to the nature preservation, and there are other communities interested in copying the project. Cristina Magda from Brazil with Amazon Network for CNN WORLD REPORT.
Community Works to Prevent Loss of Marine Life in Amazon