Snapshot · Lex Fridman Podcast
Jungle Keepers estimates it needs $20 million to protect the remaining 200,000-acre corridor and fully safeguard the uncontacted tribe's territory from narcos and loggers.
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The conservation mission crosses into a drug war when Rosolie flies a drone over what he thinks is a logging camp and the occupants give immediate armed chase. Police officers escort him to safety — and are shot in a narco drive-by that same night. Rosolie finds out by phone while sitting at dinner with potential donors and has to keep smiling. [1] — Paul Rosolie "When Rosolie flew a drone over what he thought was a logging camp and the occupants gave chase, he discovered it was a narco operation. The…" 1:37:50 The escalation continues: a roadblock ambush is set for Rosolie and JJ's truck, but JJ happened to turn back and the driver Percy is held at gunpoint instead — told 'we'll get you next time.' Then police intercept a WhatsApp message: a standing reward for killing either Rosolie or JJ on sight. Rosolie describes the PTSD-like daily reality of jumping every time his phone rings, having dreams of being shot, and freezing in panic when a boat appeared around a river bend while he was swimming. He compares it to soldiers in war zones and admits he handles it poorly.
When Rosolie flew a drone over what he thought was a logging camp and the occupants gave chase, he discovered it was a narco operation. The police officers who escorted him to safety went back upriver that same evening — and one was shot in the chest in a narco drive-by. Rosolie learned of the death over the phone while sitting at dinner with potential donors, forcing himself to smile and say nothing.
Narco-traffickers set up a roadblock ambush for Rosolie and his co-director JJ, intercepting their truck driver instead and demanding to know where 'the shithead gringo with the drone' was. Police later found a WhatsApp message on an arrested narco's phone: a standing reward offer for killing either Rosolie or JJ on sight. Both men now live with active hit contracts.
Narco-traffickers intercepted by Peruvian police had a WhatsApp message offering a reward to anyone who killed Paul Rosolie or his co-director JJ on sight.
After Rosolie posted a video showing a narco road threatening uncontacted tribe territory, Jungle Keepers raised $150,000 within 48 hours and purchased the concession to stop the road.
The global cocaine user base is approximately 25 million people, fueling the multi-billion-dollar drug industry now encroaching on Amazon conservation areas.
Narcos build airstrips by clearing only the floor of the jungle while leaving canopy trees meeting overhead — invisible to satellites and overflying planes. Bush pilots duck under the canopy, land, load up, and leave. Rosolie is now racing these drug networks with an arms race of surveillance drones.
With no real climbing path — just one vine up 70 feet of bare vertical trunk before branches even appear — Rosolie hauled himself up a 160-foot ancient ironwood in pre-dawn darkness through pure strength, placing improvised safety anchors every 30 feet. At the top, in a moment of total exhaustion and wonder, he witnessed the legendary Mist River flowing over the canopy at sunrise.
Drug traffickers build airstrips in the Amazon by clearing only the interior while leaving canopy trees standing overhead, making them invisible to aerial surveillance and satellite imagery.
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