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Staff from the Amazon Conservation Team are featured across multiple episodes of Rewilding Amazonia, an eight-part investigative podcast series from Rewildology examining what it truly takes to protect the Amazon. Hosted by conservation biologist Brooke Mitchell, the series draws on nearly 30 hours of interviews with 22 scientists, practitioners, and community leaders across six Amazonian countries. New episodes release every Tuesday through June 9 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms.
Tracing the Amazon’s History
In Episode 1, “The Pattern: Tracing the Amazon’s History,” Daniel Aristizábal, Coordinator of ACT’s PIACI program for Indigenous peoples in isolation and initial contact, traces the cycles of exploitation that have shaped the Amazon over centuries — from the rubber boom to the Trans-Amazonian Highway — and explains how criminal economies have repeatedly undermined conservation protections on the ground. Daniel will also appear in Episode 6, “Whose Forest? The Defenders of the Amazon,” releasing May 26.
Tracking Destruction and Measuring Recovery
In Episode 4, “Seeing the Invisible: Tracking Destruction, Measuring Recovery,” Brian Hettler, ACT’s Director of Mapping, describes how high-resolution satellite imagery is used to monitor illegal mining, logging, and other threats at a scale no ground presence could match. He also discusses how the same mapping technology helps indigenous communities legally defend their territories — work that has helped title more than 2.7 million hectares of indigenous land in Colombia alone.
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