Ross Kemp: Battle for the Amazon is a two part documentary looking into the socio-economic and environmental pressures facing the Amazon regions of Brazil, Ecuador and Peru, exploring the legacy of devastation created by a burgeoning global desire for energy, food and mineral resources.
Part 1 investigates how oil companies are affecting large tracts of the Amazon in a desire to satisfy the planets energy needs and how the turf wars that arise over cattle ranching and soy plantations have escalated.
Part 2 investigates how the global demand for cocaine is leading to further deforestation and how the rise in the price of gold has meant that people are tearing up the rainforest as they seek to earn a living.
Executive Producer: Ross Kemp & Clive Tulloh
Producer / Director: Southan Morris
Main Talent: Ross Kemp
Transmission Channel: Sky
Production Date: 19, October 2009
Transmission Date: 20, April 2010
Episodes: 2
Episode Length: 60
Series: 1
