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09/06/2026

Where is the fate of the Amazon decided? Not in the forest; but in boardrooms, courtrooms, and the streets.

In the series finale of Rewilding Amazonia, the story moves from the field to the places where its fate is sealed. James Deutsch of Rainforest Trust breaks down what conservation finance at scale looks like and how a single pledge can move 197 countries to act. Constanza Prieto Figelist of Earth Law Center explains how environmental law is evolving to give rivers and forests legal rights worth defending in court. And Catarina Nefertari of Amazônia de Pé shares what it takes to mobilize a generation to protect 50 million hectares of Amazon that have no protection… yet.

Over seven episodes, we've traveled across six Amazon Basin countries meeting wildlife rescuers, rewilders, land defenders, scientists, and community leaders protecting the world's most important forest. Rewilding Amazonia ends here, but the work doesn't.

Episode 8 is out now wherever you enjoy podcasts! Link in bio. 🌳

05/06/2026

What if the simplest conservation tool is just cash?

Cool Earth has spent nearly 20 years giving unconditional cash directly to indigenous communities in the Amazon—no strings attached, no conditions on how it's spent. Communities decide whether to invest in solar panels, schools, seeds, or food. The trust is built in from the start.

In November 2023, Cool Earth sent its first basic income pilot transfer to almost 200 people across three indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon. Two years later, participants report less stress, stronger family bonds, more time for communal activities—and their forests are still standing.

Hear Isabel Felandro of Cool Earth share the full story in Episode 7 of Rewilding Amazonia. Link in bio. 🌳

02/06/2026

People don't choose deforestation. They choose survival.

This episode of Rewilding Amazonia asks what happens when communities in the Amazon have real economic alternatives, and meets three people who have spent decades building them.

Eduardo Nycander of Rainforest Expeditions Lodges has run a community ecotourism partnership with the Ese'eja people in Peru's Tambopata for 35 years.

Drago Bozovich's company manages 450,000 acres of FSC-certified forest in Madre de Dios, harvesting less than one tree per hectare every 20 years while providing year-round employment to local communities.

And Cool Earth's Isabel Felandro shares what happened when unconditional cash transfers reached indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon for the first time—and why the results are changing how we think about forest protection.

Episode 7 is out now wherever you enjoy podcasts!🌳

Listen here: https://rewildology.com/show-notes/the-new-economy-making-the-amazon-forest-worth-more-standing/

01/06/2026

Geothermal scientist and conservationist Andrés Ruzo has spent over a decade protecting the Boiling River—the largest documented thermal river in the world, hidden deep in the central Peruvian Amazon.

His message is simple: give nature a chance, and it will come back. The jungle can regenerate. But only if we protect the cycles that make it possible.

Hear Andrés Ruzo's full story in Episode 5 of Rewilding Amazonia—listen here: https://rewildology.com/show-notes/rivers-in-the-sky-the-amazons-climate-tipping-point-sentinel-dolphins-the-geothermal-deep/ 🌊

28/05/2026

Across the Amazon Basin, extraordinary rewilding projects are happening right now.

We have covered several inspiring stories so far on Rewilding Amazonia including:

🟢 An Indigenous community has been closing a highway every night and building wildlife canopy crossings for decades to protect wildlife, and the data proves it works.

🟢 A conservation nonprofit is restoring a 2,600-kilometer corridor connecting two of South America's most biodiverse ecosystems.

🟢 A team returned captive-raised jaguars to the Amazon and Pantanal for the first time ever.

🟢 And in Ecuador, six provinces and Indigenous nationalities are working together to protect 5.5 million hectares of Amazon forest.

The Amazon faces enormous pressure, and the people responding are doing remarkable work. These are just four of their stories.

Episodes 1 through 6 of Rewilding Amazonia are out now. Link in bio!

27/05/2026

Episode 6 of Rewilding Amazonia is the hardest episode of the series—and the most important.

This episode goes to the frontlines—to the people risking everything to protect the Amazon and the communities within it.

You'll hear from:

- An expert working with isolated Indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon who have never made contact with the outside world.
- An investigator documenting the destruction of Venezuela's southern Amazon from outside a country she cannot go home to.
- An Afro-descendant leader from Suriname whose people fought a 19-year legal battle for the right to their ancestral land.
- A community leader from the Ese'eja nation in Peru, whose village was slowly infiltrated by drug traffickers, and who has spent decades since building an ecotourism model that proves a forest standing is worth more than a forest sold.
- And a Peruvian chemical biologist whose understanding of traditional knowledge offers a different way of seeing what's worth protecting.

The people defending the Amazon come from many different backgrounds: Indigenous nations, Afro-descendant communities, scientists, investigators, and more. What they share is a willingness to stand between the forest and the forces trying to destroy it, often at enormous personal cost. According to Global Witness, almost 2,000 land and environmental defenders were killed worldwide between 2012 and 2022, with the majority in Latin America.

The defenders are still here. Episode 6 of Rewilding Amazonia is out now.

Listen here: https://rewildology.com/show-notes/whose-forest-the-defenders-of-the-amazon/

This episode of Rewilding Amazonia is supported by Cool Earth.

25/05/2026

Five years ago, this area was as flat and empty as a soccer field. Today, giant anteaters, deer, tapirs, and the first jaguars are passing through.

The Black Jaguar Foundation has spent over a decade carefully selecting, preparing, and restoring a 2,600-kilometer biodiversity corridor in the heart of Brazil. This is what quality ecological restoration looks like when you give nature time to return.

Hear Ben Valks' full story in Episode 3 of Rewilding Amazonia. Link in bio!

20/05/2026

In the heart of Brazil, a team of rewilders is building something extraordinary—the longest biodiversity corridor on Earth.

The Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor stretches 2,600 kilometers through the heart of Brazil, connecting the Amazon rainforest with the Cerrado, the world's most biodiverse tropical savanna. The Black Jaguar Foundation is restoring it through a 17-step process using 84 native species, with a goal of planting 1.7 billion native trees along the corridor.

“We have installed the first wildlife trap cameras in areas we started to restore five years ago,” Ben Valks, the founder of the Black Jaguar Foundation, told Brooke in their conversation for Rewilding Amazonia. “I could not believe the result. Nature is coming back so quickly. We just have to help."

Nature is coming back. And the Black Jaguar Foundation is proving that with the right approach, ecological restoration works.

Hear Ben Valks' full story in Part 3 of Rewilding Amazonia—link in bio!

19/05/2026

The Amazon isn't just a forest. It engineers its own rainfall through deep-rooted transpiration, moves water across a continent through invisible atmospheric currents called flying rivers, stores more than 150 billion tons of carbon, and conceals a geothermal underworld beneath its floor that science has barely touched. These systems don't operate in isolation—they talk to each other. And right now, all of them are under pressure.

Episode 5 of Rewilding Amazonia follows three scientists who know each layer intimately:

Dr. Carlos Nobre, the Brazilian climate researcher who coined the concept of the Amazon's tipping point in 1988, explains how close we actually are to crossing a threshold from which the forest cannot recover.

Jimena Valderrama, veterinarian and National Geographic Explorer with Colombia's Omacha Foundation, uses river dolphin health assessments as a diagnostic tool for the entire river system—and what her team is finding in their blood, including mercury seventy times the permitted limit, tells a troubling story about everything the river touches.

And geothermal scientist Andres Ruzo followed a childhood legend into the Peruvian jungle and found a river boiling at 87 degrees Celsius, 700 kilometers from the nearest active volcano: a discovery that opened a window into a hidden world with profound implications for science and conservation alike.

The tipping point is not inevitable. The dolphins are still there. The jungle can still grow back. Episode 5 of Rewilding Amazonia is out now. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Show notes: https://rewildology.com/show-notes/rivers-in-the-sky-the-amazons-climate-tipping-point-sentinel-dolphins-the-geothermal-deep/

13/05/2026

What's the real reason Indigenous communities sell their forests to loggers, miners, and poachers?

Sometimes it's not ideology. It's poverty.

Dr. Brian Griffiths, conservation scientist and a faculty member at Georgetown University, has spent years working with the Maijuna people of the northeastern Peruvian Amazon, one of the most biodiverse and threatened territories in South America. His argument is simple: if communities have no sustainable income, they have no choice but to accept whatever deal arrives at their door.

But if their pockets are already full, they can laugh those firms out of the room.

Brian's work focuses on building wildlife management systems rooted in Maijuna culture—sustainable hunting programs that generate real income, empower local hunters, and give communities the economic independence to say no to extractive industries.

Conservation is just as much about protecting animals as it is about making sure the people who live alongside them have something worth protecting, too.

Hear Brian's full story in Episode 2 of Rewilding Amazonia—link in bio.

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