Paul Rosolie Met An Uncontacted Tribe & Is Trying To Protect Them: On Preserving The Amazon To Save All Life On Earth

You looked across the beach and it was like you were looking through a time machine, these hunched over, almost paleolithic looking figures with their bows and arrows, and they kind of are the original jungle keepers. You just go, are we about to get surrounded and killed? Paul Rosalie, conservationist, author, filmmaker, and speaker, is the founder of Jungle Keepers, dedicated his life to protecting the Amazon rainforest. This took you a long time to get to this. place.

And I think it speaks to obsession, persistence, character traits that are necessary to change the world. We're coming up on, I think, 150,000 acres. Wow. The Peruvian government has said if we can get around 300, 350,000 acres, we'll change the land designation and protect it forever. They want to protect the forest.

They want to keep us safe. There was a period where I thought The mission is done. I'm 100% gonna get killed because on a phone they found that them saying, you know, if you can kill Paul or JJ, do it. So explain the mission that you're on.

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