What is it like to live in the Amazon rainforest?

City boy Paul Rosolie was 18 when he first visited the Amazon rainforest. Despite close encounters with snakes, hostility from native tribes and sometimes unbearable loneliness, this is now where he has spent most of his adult life. read more

I searched online and found a really remote research station in the Madre de Dios – or Mother of God – region of the Amazon Basin, Peru. It was being run by a British biologist and her Peruvian partner, who were working to protect 27,000 acres of rainforest, just by themselves. read more

That depends on where and how you live in the Amazon. The Amazon is now home to a few large cities. Manaus, my hometown, is a metropolis with over 2 million inhabitants. read more