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A giant gas-drilling project in the Peruvian Amazon was supposed to set a standard for environmental and cultural responsibility. But it lies in an indigenous area and since work began, it’s raised questions. Part of a new series “Worlds of Difference” from independent producer Sandy Tolan and Homelands Productions.

“WORLDS OF DIFFERENCE” PERU GAS: A giant gas drilling project in the Peruvian Amazon was supposed to set a standard for environmental and cultural responsibility. But it lies in an indigenous area and since work began, it’s raised questions. Part of a new series “Worlds of Difference” from independent producer Sandy Tolan and Homelands Productions.

We’re heading to the furthest reaches of the world’s biggest forest in search of a lost city. Anthropologists thought only small, simple societies lived there. Rumors have persisted of long-lost great civilizations. The World’s Marina Giovannelli reports.

The World’s Alex Gallafent travels to Manaus, Brazil to meet the Imbauba Group, a musical band that takes its cue from the Amazon rain forest.