Live on the fire frontline in the Peruvian Amazon

Published: Jan. 14, 2014, 2:24 a.m.

Victor Gutiérrez from Columbia University’s Earth Institute in New York discusses how fire is having an impact on health and cultivation in the Amazon - while standing next to a crackling fire near Pucallpa, in the Ucayali region of the Peruvian Amazon. — Interview by Barbara Fraser, editing by Kate Evans