The second episode of the series opens with beautiful drone shots of the Noel Kempff Mercado National Park in Bolivia. The documentary illustrates the connection between this seasonally flooded savanna to dry Chiquitano forest. Modern scenes of the striking geological features of the Huanchaca Plateau and breathtaking Arco Iris and Ahlfeld Falls, the long, 3.9-million-acre park is an amazing home to a diversity of inhabitants. Most spent their meager savings on getting legal assistance to be able to acquire title to their traditional lands (some living with limited access to health care —limited potable water supplies, poor sanitation systems, limited roads and educational options) 

Rafaela walks through the most powerful sounding natural sites for its massive waterfalls and its surrounding subtropical rainforest with over 139 mammal species, 74 reptile species, 62 amphibian species and 254 fish species. The locals seem friendly but not entirely at harmony, and soon welcome the Brazilian native and her guide into their humble village where several men, women and children make food, art, sing and make crafts.  

Our main character, Rafaela Moura draws connection between the Brazilian side of the Amazon to the Bolivian side risking her life, partnering with the Nature Conservancy to get to the bottom of the climate program that is putting this side of the Amazon Rainforest at the forefront of the solution. 

She passes a group of government officials searching for resources and foresters dressed with a logo from the Bolivian environmental organization Fundacion Amigos de la Naturaleza (FAN); she stops to talk to the three energy companies who started the Noel Kempff Climate Action Project — and her Spanish dialect is not that great. The locals explain in Spanish how the project used $1.6 million of its $9.6 million in initial funding to terminate logging rights unlike Brazil on 2.1 million acres of government owned land.   

We see impactful images of how the incorporation of the government owned land into the park grew the Noel Kempff Mercado from 1.8 million acres to 3.9 million acres. At this point, the main hero of the story comes in: Dr. Rattan, (the scientist, most likely, a renowned tropical rainforest scientist who will be determined during Development) consults to Brazil, living in Africa.  An admirer of indigenous rituals, Dr. Rattan had become friends with several tribal leaders in the city. But he could hear the distant sounds of slaughter and recognized the danger to his indigenous friends and associates.

The locals seem committed but not entirely confident the Nature Conservancy and FAN have the solution to the climate crises, and soon welcome the Brazilian native and her guide into their place of business…She is overcome with emotion as she revisits a familiar tribal condition, she tells the group around her, her entire family lived out the military regime years in Tucurui building the hydroelectric dam. She gets emotional. Our leading Bolivian scholar, Paul Baker (subject to change during development),  add details from his own journey pursuing through and interview the goal of understanding climate change on time-scales from decades to million of years: was it natural climate forces that led to variability?  How did past climate influence the ecological and diversity of organisms in the tropics, as well as how climate change and other human activities will affect the fate of this organism.

The program then drops back to set the scene for what drove these tribes from their homes in the rainforest to this jungle, poor community where they don’t interact with the land surveyors and the strangers to the jungle and the culture moving in and starting the first wave of deforestation: Rafaela looking out at the Energy projects starts to have flashbacks of Rafaela’s family working on this site’s largest dam in the world again. 

Rafaela journeying into the dangerous depths of the Amazon. She tells us, that she needs to find out the stories of the survivors of the assassinations to get down to the facts, even if she puts her life at risk. The destruction of the Amazon cannot be viewed as civilized vs. savages, oppressor and oppressed. Rather, history, much like the Amazon itself, is nuanced and complex. 

The documentary then cuts to the third episode in Brazil: