NPR: Traveling Down the Amazon Road

Listen and watch this interesting photo-audio documentary from the NPR on the construction and impact of the trans-amazonian highway in Perú and Brazil:

A transcontinental highway under construction in Peru and Brazil is bringing the prospects of economic opportunity and environmental ruin to some of the most remote places on the planet. NPR correspondent Lourdes Garcia-Navarro and staff photographer John Poole traveled the Peruvian route to produce this series.

Travelling Down the Amazon Road