Inside the World’s Deadliest Jungle: Snakes, Tigers & Survival | Paul Rosolie | FO500 Raj Shamani
Raj Shamani Figuring Out episode, sponsored by travel partner Gobo, the show's five-hundredth special, in which Raj talks with Paul Rosolie, conservationist, author and founder of Jungle Keepers, which protects 136,000 acres of Amazon rainforest, about life inside the world's deadliest jungle. Rosolie's stakes: rainforest covers only 6 percent of Earth's land but holds half of its life, and we are wiping out the belt we cannot live without. His ecology point is ants over humans - remove humans and nothing changes, remove ants and whole ecosystems crash, because they engineer the system. The stories run from being charged by an elephant in India - it threw a stick at his head after he rolled down a twelve-foot bank into a stream - to tracking tigers on foot, to the twenty-three-billion-dollar-a-year illegal wildlife trade behind tiger-penis wine and ivory. His career advice to admirers: never replicate somebody else's path - find a master doing the work at the highest level and study under them, as he did for seven years with the tracker JJ. PARTIAL COVERAGE: this summary highlights the conservation case and key stories; the field anecdotes are not covered. These are Rosolie's own views, figures and experiences, not independently verified.
