Paul Rosolie

with their bows and arrows.

And the only thing that made me think that I wasn't hallucinating was the fact that all the millions of butterflies that were on the beach that day were flying.

There's all these yellow and white butterflies flying around them.

These people are approaching us with their bows and arrows.

And that was another situation where you just go, are we about to get surrounded and killed?

Because they've been known to be extremely violent, which is why they're still alive.

Next to the Comanches and the Spartans, it's like this is one of the groups that has chosen violence.

And they kind of are the original jungle keepers because the reason our river is so wild is because everyone's been scared to go up there.

And so now that 20,000 acres that we just got yesterday, when I published the video of the tribes, of the Nomole a few months ago, people were saying, how dare you share the image of these people and use them to promote yourself and go on these podcasts and sell a book?

Well...

Now, 20,000 acres of their land that they have no idea could be owned is protected and safe because from January and February, the press that we got for them, people have donated and we protected more land.

And so now, you know, people, you know, you come up here to New York after you've been bleeding in the Amazon for years and years to get this stuff done.

I had one woman at a talk.

She goes, well, how come you as a white male is trying to say, how come it's not?

And I said, I don't know.

know i speak english fluently like my indigenous guys are all down there working i'm just the communication box following what they do and so with the with the nomoli it was like we got a little bit of criticism for publishing the images of them and people were like they wouldn't necessarily want this it's like you know what they really don't want to have their forest bulldozed and to get killed by outside world pathogens or to be machine gunned to death by narco traffickers that's what they really don't want

We had always, me and my friends had always joked about this.

And one of the guys on my team, I was there with Mohsen and Stefan, who were both founding members of Jungle Keepers with me.

And we were there just doing the job for the communities.

And Mohsen was the only one among us that had kids.