Created by Crazyprofile.com "The Amazonis a metaphor for the world admits Bruce Parry, UK ex-mariner, ardent adventuristand presenter. His riveting journey exposed naked truths of the Homo sapiens,floras and faunas throbbing in Amazon. Although he had prior experiences withforests and tribes this documentary series gave him grotesque and yet pulsatingrevelations. His earlier series Tribe"had received immense and immediate global attention. "Amazon withBruce Parry", is an exhilarating 6 episode series produced and broadcastedby BBC. Bruce escapade spanned about 7 months and over 6.800km through theAmazon. The story begins with the disputed origin of Amazon, at around 5000 metershigh at the Andes Mountain. The droplets melting out of the ice from Andesmakes it the biggest ecological glamor. Bruce spends time with the Alpaca farmerswho live near the origin, Nevado Mismi.Every year tons of soil swept away from Sahara desert bywind and are deposited in the Amazon. This process has empowered Amazon formillions of years, a global commute. Amazon is one of the largest respiratory organ of the earth. It is a jungle of mystery withthousands of rich diversified species of floras and faunas. Every year a hugepercentage of forest disappears silently and the pace of environmental disasteris unquestioned. For the indigenous, Amazon rainforest is the lifelineof their existence and for decades they are being haunted by poachers, ranchersand multi-nationals. Bruce says It's about the hopes and wishes ofindigenous communities trying to grapple with a mad modern world where theyface losing their language, identity and in some cases, their lives. It's aboutpeople who are so important to the world, who could teach us all so much inthese troubled times. That's what Tribe is to me. The series clearly portrays the tribes resistance topermit Bruce and his crew into their community. However, he stays with Achuarpeople (who had contact with the outside world for less than 40 years) where hetried the sacred drink Ayahuasca. His lessons from Ayahuasca was moving, his ego has prevented him from seeing the visions. Despite of true efforts, the tribes treatsBruce with suspicious eyes. Bruce contemplates, the tribes are getting reunited,alerted to protect and preserve their traditions from intruders. The petroleum companies are bustling in the Amazonbasin and the ecology is disrupted. The fishes started to die, soils/land andfresh water system are polluted from oil spills and other chain of ecologicalimpacts. On the other hand, some regions of the Amazon are extremely dangerousand are occupied by deadly coca planters and poachers. Bruce and crew had truegrit to encounter closely the production of cocaine in an undisclosed locationhidden under the woods. They luckily escaped from the raids of the patrollinghelicopter. The nature of this business is prickly and threatening. These planterstake huge risk in planting coca plants for a meager price of $100 which is soldout for millions in the international market. These planters are poor, however they are part of the chain. Where us the middlemen or dealers mints a huge chunk of money. After a treacherous and exciting trekking through thePeruvian Amazon he enters the Brazilian Amazon, he was welcomed by the Carnivalfestival at Benjamin Constant. Interestingly Amazon River takes