The Wildest Place on Earth

The Peruvian Amazon is a trackless wilderness whose only roads are the rivers that slip quietly through its vast tropical forest. I spent nearly two weeks surveying the region by dugout canoe and small plane in late June and July, researching the illicit trade of mahogany and effects of road construction, gold mining and petroleum exploration and extraction on un-contacted indigenous tribes and biodiversity. I also spent time in the headwaters of the Amazon around Cuzco and Machu Picchu. Read about it here in the New York Times.