Can anyone accurately tell how much of the movie is "true"? How much was changed for the movie? Also, it was filmed over 20 years ago. What has happened since to the dam, (was it rebuilt-if that particular one ever really existed?), the dad, the son, to that particular tribe? Thanks.
shareSince 1985, about 400,000km² of forest has been lost in the Amazon Basin, most of which is in Brazil.
Still, many debt for nature swaps have occured (US primarily responsible) and a lot of national parks have been created. I think by 2010 about 10% of the Amazon's original cover of 4,100,000km² should be under full protection (now it's only 3,400,000km forest cover.)
*Note: Deforestation still occurs in protected areas.
Also, for the first time, a 2-year consecutive drought has occured. This has devestated the environment and if it happens a third consecutive year the world's most catastrophic irreversible event may occur.
We lose 1.5 acres a second of rainforest.
The dam was never really destroyed...they just showed a small piece built by them being destroyed. It still exists and has flooded about 3000 sq km of area.
Practically everything was changed -- there's a summary on Wikipedia.
shareThanks Molly, I am trying to get some information like maps on deforestation. I am new to Wikipedia, do you have a link please? By the way, I enjoyed the film, it was on late on domestic TV in London last night.
shareGo to http://en.wikipedia.org.
Type "Emerald Forest" into the search engine.
You can also search on "deforestation".