Paul Rosolie

We thought that we were looking at loggers when they saw the guns and they saw us face them, they turned their boat around and they went back down river.

So we got escorted down river and,

And I remember shaking his hand, my friend, and saying, thank you for saving us today.

And telling the other guys they did a good job.

I said, get back up river.

We'd been brought home safe.

This is hours later.

I said, good job.

Thank you so much.

And they went back up river.

And then that night I'm sitting at the station that you know, and I get a phone call from Stefan and he goes, pick up the phone.

And I go, I can't.

I'm in the middle of a conversation.

He goes, pick up the phone.

And my friend, who I had just shook his hand a few hours ago, they went back upriver, and as they were unloading their boat and washing off in the stream, the narcos did a drive-by and shotgun straight to the chest, shot him in the chest.

And so all of that enthusiasm, and we're protecting the biodiversity, and this is so great, there's people from around the world.

It's like that scene in the movie where there's just a montage of success and hope and acres and winning, gunshot.

And I could still feel his hand in my hand.

I just shook his hand.

I said, no, you can't.