Called ‘Eaten Alive’, the stunt was recorded by Discovery Channel. It was telecast in the U.S. in December. It followed a 60-day expedition by an eight-member team in May and June last year into the Amazon’s “floating forests” to study anacondas. Though anacondas are at the top of the river’s food chain, they are killed by people in the Amazon just as snakes are killed in India, out of fear. He said, “People benefit from having snakes around. No snake will ever attack a person. Ever.”
The aim was also to save the Amazonian forests, home to the anacondas, which like all forests, are being destroyed by governments, corporations, for “development”, despite generating one-fifth of the world’s oxygen and being home to the maximum number of species. Illegal gold mining was destroying the Amazonian forests, he said. With illegal gold mining came mercury, which enters rivers, fish, animals and finally, into people.
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