Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest

The Lost Tribes of the Amazon

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 4, 2013

Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin, founder of the Amazon Conservation Team, talks about the “uncontacted,” isolated groups living deep in the South American forest resist the ways of the modern world. He's featured in the article “The Lost Tribes of the Amazon,” by Joshua Hammer, in the March issue of Smithsonian magazine.

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