Paul Rosolie

And so 20 years ago, when I first got to the region and people were telling me that there's uncontacted tribes out there, it was always in the realm of something...

You know, it's like people say there's Bigfoot or don't go there, it's haunted or something.

It was like a tall tale almost.

And even the Peruvian government at the time that I went to Peru first, which was 2006, their official position was that the tribes are a myth.

There's no such thing as the tribes.

That was the official position.

And you would hear these stories of people that got shot.

You'd meet someone high up a river, four days up river deep in the Amazon that had an arrow shot.

And you'd look at this thing and it had this, you know, mega gravity.

And so as we've created jungle keepers and now we're protecting 130,000 acres of this river, we're protecting the plants and the animals and the ancient trees and trying to preserve the ecosystem and counting the butterflies and conducting ecological surveys.

And what we've inadvertently found ourselves doing

The caretakers of is the fact that these people, in order to continue living, have to remain isolated, want to remain isolated.

That's their one mandate as a civilization, the tribes of the Mashko Pirro.

In October, we were, you know, as jungle keepers now, we're working with the indigenous people.

What we do is we take loggers and gold miners and make them into rangers and give them better jobs.

And we try to protect the forest.

And those people who live up in the remote indigenous community, they called us on a satellite phone and they said, directors, you've been working with us and telling us you want to help us.

The tribes are coming out.

What do we do?

What was your thinking when you got the phone call?