Ross Kemp's powerful documentary on deforestation, poverty, and crime in the Amazon rainforest.

Ross Kemp visits South America to look into how oil companies are destroying large parts of the Amazon rainforest to meet the world's energy needs; how fierce battles are being fought over cattle ranching and soy plantations; how the global demand for cocaine causes its own local damage and how the rising price of gold has led people to tear up the rainforest just to make a living. Ross talks to ranchers, tribal people, environmentalists, and scientists as he looks into the link between deforestation and the effects of local damage, poverty, and crime. From the bad smells of a lake filled with dumped crude oil to a mining town where child prostitution is common or a raid on an illegal logging plant, he walks the often scary line between the daily fight for survival and the environmental worries of the planet.