Journalist Pedro Andrade recently spent 6 months deep in the Amazon with unparalleled access to many unique communities while filming a new documentary series for VICE. In this conversation, he discusses the complexity of the indigenous people who live there, the tension between economic development and preservation, and his hopes for this critical region of the earth.

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