Paul Rosolie

When I started in the Amazon, it was so wild, it's almost impossible to describe it.

Going days into the jungle, you were insulated by hundreds and hundreds of miles of jungle.

You're in the middle of the Amazon.

And over the last 20 years, I've seen these roads cut through, the Trans-Amazon Highway, the offshoot roads.

And what that's done is give people access.

Usually the jungle was viewed as impenetrable.

And so right as we're starting to protect this land from the loggers and the gold miners, and we're figuring this out,

About two years ago, you know, if this was, you see like the second act, it's like, this is like the third act where we're like, we're starting to get there.

This is going to happen.

And we were notching these winds and running down field.

And then that all ended with a gunshot.

And one of the guys on my team got killed by narco traffickers.

And we realized that we...

hadn't realized that we had this infestation of very serious criminals that now wanted to infiltrate the deep wild because there's no police out there.

It's the Wild West.

If me and you get into a dispute, whatever happens, happens.

It's up to us.

There's no one coming.

Luckily, they're mom and pop shop, which is great because as we support the police, we get them boats and we help them with drones and we will pay for an overflight if they need it.

The Peruvian police, everyone assumes that they're corrupt.