Deep in the jungles of Suriname, Dr. Mark Plotkin is racing against time. Here is the Amazon of legend, where men become jaguars, where frogs cry along the riverbanks with voices of lonely women, where fire-feathered birds screech and click in a thicket of vines. Here are remote tribes of Amerindians, eighteenth century African villages, and forest people living in the Stone Age. Here in the vast canopy of trees is a treasure of unknown dimension--the chemically rich and diverse plant life of the forest--the secrets of which could one day yield cures for our most troubling illnesses. But the world is standing outside the treasury door with a torch in its hand, hungry for land, gold, and timber. Mark Plotkin, a committed and passionate conservationist, has vowed to save this forest, acre by acre.
| Directed by | Miranda Smith |