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The conservation organization Jungle Keepers has successfully protected over 130,000 acres of rainforest.
Jungle Keepers has a strategic goal to protect an additional 200,000 acres of rainforest.
Warriors from the uncontacted Mashco-Piro tribe killed two loggers in the Peruvian Amazon in August 2024.
Jungle Keepers' operational model involves hiring former illegal loggers and gold miners to work as forest rangers, providing them with better-paying jobs.
The Mashco-Piro tribe has a history of violent encounters, including shooting a ranger named Ignacio in the head and murdering another individual on a beach.
The Mashco-Piro tribe views the act of cutting down large trees as a defining characteristic of "bad guys" from the outside world and considers it an offensive act on an almost religious level.
The day after a peaceful encounter, approximately 200 members of the Mashco-Piro tribe ambushed a boat, shooting a man named George through the torso with a seven-foot arrow.
The 200,000 acres of rainforest that Jungle Keepers is currently trying to protect constitutes the primary territory of the uncontacted Mashco-Piro tribe.
Narco-traffickers have moved into the Amazon river basin targeted by Jungle Keepers, where they are growing coca for cocaine production and building clandestine airstrips.
A Peruvian police officer who had assisted Paul Rosolie's team was murdered by narco-traffickers in a drive-by shooting hours after the encounter.
Narco-traffickers ambushed a Jungle Keepers vehicle, holding the driver at gunpoint while specifically asking for the location of "JJ" and Paul Rosolie.
A WhatsApp message intercepted by Peruvian police from a narco-trafficker's phone revealed a kill order with a reward for anyone in their network who assassinates Paul Rosolie or his colleague JJ.