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- After years of preparation, zoologist George Olah finally got what he wanted. A special permission from the government of Peru. The 50+ page document gave him access to the Holy Grail of parrot researchers: the Candamo Basin, in the Peruvian Amazon. A place where wildlife exists without any human disturbance since the beginning of times. Surrounded by the foothills of the Andes, the Candamo Basin hosts one of the very few uninhabited tropical rainforest of the world. Not even native tribes had settled here and decades had passed since the last camera team dared to sail the hostile rapids of the Candamo river. In February, 2016 the nine members of an international scientific expedition finally got on board of an Amazonian motorized canoe. It took 4 days for them to reach the location. After setting up their base camp in the rainforest, researchers climbed giant trees, investigated nest hollows, captured and tagged young macaws and collected blood samples and feathers for genetic analysis. But doing serious scientific work in the Amazon is not an easy feat. Jaguars visit the camp, wasps attack the climbers and parasites hunt and bite every free piece of skin. Despite all the challenges the team returns to the lab with the invaluable samples that can help us understand the status of an isolated parrot population.
- Melo, Mañuco and Mishaja are local villagers in a small town in Madre de Dios. They work as eventual tourism guides to foreign visitors and dreaming about pastime when the Amazon Rainforest biological diversity wasn't far and scarce from them. With funds received as a present from a thankful customer they attended before, they had the chance to organize a joyful voyage to a land where animals, plants and nature are rarely invaded by people.
- 'Extraction: The Plundering of the Amarakaeri Reserve', provides first hand accounts from the indigenous Harakmbut tribe, living in the shadow of seismic oil exploration on their land deep in the heart of the Peruvian rain forest. With their livelihoods and very existence in jeopardy, the Harakmbut are fighting back against their own Government and Texas based Hunt Oil to put an end to what they see as the decimation to the natural habitat they've hunted and fished upon for thousands of years. Extraction documents the sobering fact that U.S. companies are still in the business of pursuing the most vulnerable people and eco-bio diverse regions on our planet, all in the name of monetary profit.
- As valuable wood like mahogany quickly disappears all across the Peruvian Amazon, confrontations between illegal loggers and "isolated" people are accelerating in the last pockets of pristine rainforest in the Department of Madre de Dios. In Southeastern Peru on a state reserve for "people in voluntary isolation," deaths from poison arrows are easy to document, yet it is unclear how many "uncontacted", nomadic people have died from shotgun blasts and contact with outsiders because of their lack of immunity to disease. Chainsaws and Arrows gives a glimpse into a complex struggle for the rights to the last of this wilderness. From the unchecked invasion of protected territory, to extreme poverty and social injustice, this investigation by Isabel Sande Frandsen and Adam M. Goldstein uncovers a web of corruption that stretches from the upper reaches of the Las Piedras and Tahuamanu Rivers all the way to the Congress in Lima.
- In the dark recesses of the Peruvian rain-forest, stands an unwavering Brazil nut tree - a titan among trees. For it to reproduce, this awe-inspiring pillar of strength relies on a series of intricate relationships with plants, animals and insects found in the wild. This means that the Brazil nut tree only grows in its natural habitat - the Amazon jungle. Without this incredible tree, many species will go extinct.