She fell 10,000 feet from a plane and woke up in the jungle, the only survivor

swollen eye and no glasses. Her mother was gone.

“It’s not the green hell that the world always thinks”

What saved the 17-year-old was her unusual childhood. Juliane’s parents, zoologists Hans-Wilhelm and Maria Koepcke, ran a research station called Panguana deep in the rainforest, and Juliane grew up there.

“I learned a lot about life in the rainforest,continue reading …