Paul Rosolie
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Paul Rosolie is an American conservationist, author, naturalist, explorer, and wildlife filmmaker who founded Junglekeepers, a nonprofit organization protecting rainforest in Peru’s Madre de Dios region. He is known for his conservation work in the Amazon rainforest and wrote the memoir Mother of God.
What Paul Rosolie has said on podcasts
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The Amazon is Earth’s largest contiguous rainforest.
“It's the largest contiguous rainforest on Earth.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: I Met An Uncontacted Tribe! The Secret World Hidden In The Amazon Rainforest - Paul RosolieListen at 0:17
Parts of the Amazon rainforest remain unexplored.
“There are still parts of the Amazon rainforest that are unexplored.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: I Met An Uncontacted Tribe! The Secret World Hidden In The Amazon Rainforest - Paul RosolieListen at 0:23
Half of rainforest life exists in the canopy.
“half of the life in a rainforest exists in the canopy.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: I Met An Uncontacted Tribe! The Secret World Hidden In The Amazon Rainforest - Paul RosolieListen at 0:39
The Amazon has had more terrestrial wildlife than anywhere else on Earth.
“There's never been more terrestrial wildlife anywhere on Earth than in the Amazon rainforest.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: I Met An Uncontacted Tribe! The Secret World Hidden In The Amazon Rainforest - Paul RosolieListen at 0:46
Wilderness hardship transforms people and connects them to their environment.
“the wild puts you through this gauntlet of transformation, and you become connected to your environment.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: I Met An Uncontacted Tribe! The Secret World Hidden In The Amazon Rainforest - Paul RosolieListen at 8:43
Rosolie’s adventures eventually became a meaningful conservation mission.
“adventure became meaning.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: I Met An Uncontacted Tribe! The Secret World Hidden In The Amazon Rainforest - Paul RosolieListen at 14:17
The Mashco-Piro historically kept a particular river undeveloped.
“this particular river had been protected by the violent, mysterious Mashco-Piro nomadic uncontacted tribes.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: I Met An Uncontacted Tribe! The Secret World Hidden In The Amazon Rainforest - Paul RosolieListen at 16:05
People working in the Amazon should trust local reports.
“always believe the locals.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: I Met An Uncontacted Tribe! The Secret World Hidden In The Amazon Rainforest - Paul RosolieListen at 22:37
Amazonian Indigenous people have more finely tuned senses than outsiders.
“they have higher-tuned senses than we do.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: I Met An Uncontacted Tribe! The Secret World Hidden In The Amazon Rainforest - Paul RosolieListen at 23:41
The tribe requested bananas during its encounter with outsiders.
“The first thing that they said after coming out of the jungle 1,000 years late to civilization was, send us bananas.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: I Met An Uncontacted Tribe! The Secret World Hidden In The Amazon Rainforest - Paul RosolieListen at 26:13
A longbow arrow can travel approximately 300 meters.
“A longbow arrow is going to go 300 meters.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: I Met An Uncontacted Tribe! The Secret World Hidden In The Amazon Rainforest - Paul RosolieListen at 26:47
Protecting the tribe’s forest is necessary to safeguard its rights and welfare.
“the only way to care for these people and to give them the, the rights that they deserve is to protect the forest they live in.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: I Met An Uncontacted Tribe! The Secret World Hidden In The Amazon Rainforest - Paul RosolieListen at 31:29
The tribe primarily eats turtles and monkeys and does not fish.
“They primarily turtles and monkeys. They don't fish. They don't have fish hooks.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: I Met An Uncontacted Tribe! The Secret World Hidden In The Amazon Rainforest - Paul RosolieListen at 32:37
The Mashco-Piro are not cannibals.
“They do not eat humans. They are not cannibal tribes.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: I Met An Uncontacted Tribe! The Secret World Hidden In The Amazon Rainforest - Paul RosolieListen at 32:44
The encounter described was the anthropologist’s first contact with those individuals.
“this was first contact.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: I Met An Uncontacted Tribe! The Secret World Hidden In The Amazon Rainforest - Paul RosolieListen at 33:11
Fear was the dominant emotion for both groups during the encounter.
“the prevailing emotion during this entire thing was fear on both sides.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: I Met An Uncontacted Tribe! The Secret World Hidden In The Amazon Rainforest - Paul RosolieListen at 33:55
The observed Mashco-Piro individuals appeared to be aged roughly 12 to 45.
“we saw people between the ages of probably 12 and 45.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: I Met An Uncontacted Tribe! The Secret World Hidden In The Amazon Rainforest - Paul RosolieListen at 35:27
Outsiders should not enter the tribe’s territory.
“People shouldn't be getting into the places that they live.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: I Met An Uncontacted Tribe! The Secret World Hidden In The Amazon Rainforest - Paul RosolieListen at 38:54
Outside pathogens, including common cold viruses, could devastate an isolated tribe.
“The outside pathogens that you and I carry on us every day, the common cold that we have immunity to, could wipe out an entire tribe.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: I Met An Uncontacted Tribe! The Secret World Hidden In The Amazon Rainforest - Paul RosolieListen at 39:46
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