Miguel Rocha was brought up in the Amazonian forest but went to school in Manaus, the only one of 19 brothers and sisters to get an education. He worked in business and became an expert in speedboat motors before turning to eco-tourism. In the mid-1990s he set up a charitable foundation in Novo Airão, near Manaus, to help rural caboclos get education and work. He lives in Manaus but, he says, his heart is with the forest
Tell me about your caboclo roots? Where did your family come from?
My grandfather crossed the Atlantic from Portugal in the 1880s…
