Paul Rosolie

We were very unprepared for it.

And so, I mean, just two days ago, I was, you know, on my way to you and my phone rang at nine o'clock at night and it was JJ.

And it was like, I had a, my heart was jackhammering.

I had to pull over because I was going, what news now?

You know, did we lose another bunch of acres?

Is it a new road?

Did somebody die?

It just, you know, it really scatters you.

Yeah.

It's the only place that they can operate...

with impunity they there's no police out there and so they saw us helping the police and they went cut the head off the snake yeah and that you know uh chico mendez dorothy stang the list of people that environmental defenders that are assassinated in the amazon every year is huge there's there's endless examples of it it's staggering i forget that the

I forget the exact numbers, but it's like every year we lose.

There'll be local leaders who are trying to stop an oil company or a drug cartel, and they just shoot them.

Because they know that that one person that's able to rally that support, who has that voice, if you just shoot them, usually it'll end the thing.

And then they can go back to doing whatever the hell they want.

And so right now we're working very closely with the Peruvian government.

And people assume that...

you know, a Latin American government is automatically corrupt.

But what we found is that these are really good people that want to help their citizens.

And the police have been working very hard to stop the narcos, to protect the local indigenous people.