Amazon with Bruce Parry Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Season 1 Episode 6: EPISODE: 6

  The adventurer meets people on both sides of the arguments over Brazil's mass deforestation, the native Kayapo Indians whose homeland is being irreparably damaged, and cattle farmers moving onto the land. He tries to see if there is a balance between the country's proud position as the world's largest exporter of beef and soya and the environmental consequences for the region. Last in series

• Season 1 Episode 5: EPISODE: 5

  The adventurer meets a few of the workers at an illegal gold mine so large that a whole town, Grota Rica, has sprung up around it. However, as this industrialised community thrives, the damage done to the local ecosystem through deforestation and pollution is immense - and still the prospectors continue to search for the nugget that will change their lives regardless of the environmental consequences

• Season 1 Episode 4: EPISODE: 4

  Halfway through his journey, and after narrowly avoiding being caught up in a police operation targeting cocaine smugglers, the adventurer reaches the vast Mamiraua nature reserve, home to many of the region's most iconic species. There he lives among local tribe the Ribeirinho - 'river people' - and hunts the Amazon's biggest fish, the Pirarucu, which can grow to a length of 4.5metres

• Season 1 Episode 3: EPISODE: 3

  The former Royal Marine revisits old friends when he meets members of the Matis tribe, but the reception is lukewarm due to their wariness of outsiders they hold responsible for the diseases that killed many of them. Bruce also meets the loggers who are blamed for cutting down great swathes of the forest. Farther along the river, the Marubos prove more lively with dancing and rituals through the night

• Season 1 Episode 2: EPISODE: 2

  The former Royal Marine takes part in a wild football match as he continues his adventure along the Amazon. He learns a new way of fishing during a stay with the Achuar people, who have only had contact with the outside world for 40 years, and tries one of the ritual drugs of the community. There's also a chance for him to witness first-hand the effects of the exploitation of the land's riches

• Season 1 Episode 1: EPISODE: 1

  The former Royal Marine journeys from the source of the mighty Amazon river high up on the Peruvian mountain Nevado Mismi, through the world's largest forest, to the port of Belem, where the tiny trickle that started as glacial melt water finally meets the Atlantic Ocean. He begins his journey by spending time with a family of llama farmers and meeting some of the key players in the cocaine trade