Most Replayed Moment: I Met An Uncontacted Tribe! The Secret World Hidden In The Amazon Rainforest - Paul Rosolie

How big is the Amazon rainforest? Try to get my head around the scale of it. I'm bad with numbers. What I do know is that it's larger than the lower 48 states. It's absolutely tremendous. It's the largest contiguous rainforest on Earth. And are there parts of it that people have never been to? 100%. There are still parts of the Amazon rainforest that are unexplored. There's parts of the Amazon rainforest that no one's ever been to. And if you really want to blow your own mind, the canopy of the Amazon rainforest is about 150, 160 feet up above our heads, which is far. and half of the life in a rainforest exists in the canopy. So you're talking about the most mega biodiverse biome that has ever existed. There's never been more terrestrial wildlife anywhere on Earth than in the Amazon rainforest and right now. In the entire fossil record, we're at the apex, the climax community of the Amazon rainforest. It's that. Brilliant. Where the Andes rainforest cloud forests meet the lowland tropical Amazon, there it is. That's the most life we know of in the entire universe. And in terms of human life, I hear there's lots of human life there that we've never contacted. There are various tribes living through the Western Amazon, and you have the Eseha and the Machigenga, and you have the Yine, and then further out beyond all of these, there were always rumors that there were uncontacted tribes. And for the first many years that I was there, it was always someone's uncle, someone's brother, someone's cousin would come back with these crazy stories that someone had seen the tribes and that they were tall and naked and they still hunted with bows and arrows. And then every now and then somebody would come back with a seven-foot arrow, a spear tipped with bamboo, a huge bamboo tip this big. razor sharp, like a machete. And that was the only proof we had that they existed until the day we met them. When did you meet them for the first time? So in order to explain how we met them, we should probably explain why, what, where we got to in how the, how the 18 year old researcher became the director of a major organization, but. Please. Okay. Well, somewhere along the way, as we did these expeditions through the Amazon and I became closer and closer with the indigenous people, you know, JJ as a teacher kept telling me, and that's what the first chapter of the book is about, is him just teaching me the incredible interconnectedness. There's this moment that I write about where he's going, look at this beach and tell me the news. And I said, what? And he said, yeah, he said, every day the ground is like last night's newspaper. It tells you what happened. So I look at the beach, and there's jaguar tracks, and it's like a mess …