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Paul Rosolie

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

The loggers are happy to turn into rangers.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

People all over the world have become Jungle Keeper supporters.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

We have several thousand people that every month give us between five and a thousand dollars every single month.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

And that keeps the rangers going, that employs the local people.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

So it's not just making a, you know, drawing a line and making a park and saying everybody stay out.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

It's like, no, you have the nomoles, you have the indigenous people, you have

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

You have a future for the indigenous people where their kids don't have to worry about like eating monkeys.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

They can be park rangers.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

And I get blowback from people right away where I say like, and people can even come see it through the treehouse.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

And people go, oh, are you going to bring tourists into the wildest place on earth?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

And it's like, man, look at that jungle.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

And it's like that 300,000 acres of that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

And you're talking about on a football field, we're talking about two blades of grass that we access so people can see it, which makes a huge difference.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

And so like the fact that we can share it with people that people, I mean, the amount of people that listens to look like since, since the first time I came here and spoke to you,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

the amount to which you've made it possible for us to protect this place.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

The amount of spider monkeys and jaguars and giant anteaters and those ancient millennium trees that you've made it possible to protect is monstrous.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

And so- Thank you, brother.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

Yes, please do.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

And because our first conversation led to the first surge where people realized what Jungle Keepers was, and then because we got this surge of support, then we were able to expand our work, protect more acres.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

A lot of our major donors, a lot of our small-scale donors came in because of that.