he began a steady, the early el dorado texting here you can see a picture of one of the old el dorado texted actually visit picture write-up. i found this in a brazilian archive. it is actually the same document that fawcett found as well and is eaten through by moths and coming apart. fawcett began to study these documents and in these documents even though the early el dorado hunters never found a great golden kingdom at least the early hunters the first ones that went to the amazon, they all described large populations along the banks of the amazon river and they describe large towns and cities that listen and wide. they describe dreamlike causeways. they describe bridges and pottery that was refined is anything from greece or rum. later settlers went to come later exports of going to the amazon area never find any of these things so most historians, all of this misfeasor account, they seem they were products of the conquistadores furtive imagination than they were just like calderotta, an illusion and in this case to justify to the monarchs the disastrous nature and they want to e

in an isolated jungle clearing known as new el dorado, illegal gold miners have devastated the forestor miles around, polluted the ground water and rivers with mercury and caused one river to completely dry up. the question for those designing redd is how on earth does the rich world get its money to illegal miners, illegally occupying land in the middle of the jungle? until it can, there'll be little incentive here to do anything but keep on digging and destroying, although the miners don't think they're the problem. >> ( translated ): an illegal miner destroys less forest than a rancher. in one year, a rancher can destroy millions and millions of hectares and an illegal miner can stay in the same place for years. we destroy a fraction of what they destroy. >> reporter: brazil's meat industry is the biggest in the world and flavio the miner is right: cattle farmers are indeed responsible for the vast majority of the deforestation. early on, ranchers grabbed land up here too, and like the illegal loggers and miners, felled great swathes of rainforest. most farmers have fake titles to