Paul Rosolie

You looked across the beach and it was like you were looking through a time machine.

These hunched over, almost paleolithic looking figures with their bows and arrows.

And they kind of are the original Jungle Keepers.

You just go, are we about to get surrounded and killed?

Paul Rosalie, conservationist, author, filmmaker, and speaker.

We're coming up on, I think, 150,000 acres.

Wow.

The Peruvian government has said if we can get around 300,000, 350,000 acres,

We'll change the land designation and protect it forever.

They want to protect the forest.

They want to keep us safe.

There was a period where I thought the mission is done.

I'm 100% going to get killed because on a phone they found them saying, you know, if you can kill Paul or JJ, do it.

My mission really simply, I'm focusing on the wildest part of the Amazon rainforest and trying to save this tiny little tributary that's in the tree that is the giant Amazon river basin.

We're trying to save

this part this one river and which if you you know tally it up this has more terrestrial life than anywhere else on earth so if you care about animals if you care about the climate if you care about undiscovered medicines or the indigenous people that live there this place is like a time capsule that no one's gotten to and now the loggers and the narcos and the gold miners are looking at this because it's one of the last places on earth that is untouched

And so we're race against time trying to protect this with the indigenous people as quickly as possible.

Those guys...

have been living out in the middle of the Amazon for at least a few hundred years.

They are the uncontacted tribes of lore.