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The Rainforest Nesei: Japanese Immigrants in the Amazon

Season 2 Episode 203 | 26m 46s

In the early 1920s, a small group of Japanese peasants received a land grant deep in the vast forests of the Amazon. Today their descendants have become prosperous farmers, raising tropical crops and pepper, all the while protecting large tracts of primary tropical forest.

Aired: 05/10/22
Distributed nationally by American Public Television
Extras
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The natural monuments that define the territories of native peoples in New Mexico.
Conservation groups work for the ideal habitat for jaguars, mountain lions and ocelots
Protecting whales and cultivating the friendship between people and the gentle giants.
Exploring a once booming tourist mecca that is now a nearly dead body of water.
Explore the Four Corners portion of the Colorado Plateau.
The falling water levels of Lake Powell reveal fragments of ancient peoples.
Exploring Huelva, its surroundings and its wealth of cultural and historical influences.
Understanding Columbus and the influence and destruction heaped on the Americas.
Exploring the resistance and reception of Europeans to the Americas.
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Exploring a once booming tourist mecca that is now a nearly dead body of water.
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Exploring Huelva, its surroundings and its wealth of cultural and historical influences.
Understanding Columbus and the influence and destruction heaped on the Americas.
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