After years of preparation, zoologist George Olah received a special permission from the Peruvian Government. Access was granted to the Holy Grail of parrot researchers: the Candamo Basin. Surrounded by the foothills of the Andes, this basin hosts one of the very few uninhabited tropical rainforest of the world. But doing serious scientific work in the Amazon is not an easy feat...

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Contents ###
0:00 Introduction
6:07 Parrot trade
7:53 Tambopata Research Center
10:15 Trees & camera traps
15:00 Feather genetics
17:15 Macaw home-range
20:22 Candamo expedition begins
27:00 River rapids
30:16 Trouble in paradise
35:25 The Candamo Basin
37:32 Jaguar visitor
40:06 Macaw research in Candamo
45:18 Leaving Candamo
48:09 Aerial observations
51:24 Conclusions & end credits