How Indigenous Peoples Transformed the Amazon into a Vast Garden.

For centuries, many people in the Western world believed the Amazon to be an unpopulated and untouched forest. This has never been true. The Amazon has been managed by Indigenous peoples for thousands of years.  We explore how, through the creation of fertile soils and the selection and cultivation of plant and tree species over millennia, Indigenous peoples have transformed the Amazon rainforest into the most biodiverse ecosystem on Earth.

We hear from Adriana Meirelles, who lives in Bristol but is Brazilian.  You can follow her Instagram here: meirelles7269