Okay, so I am holding, I'm sitting on my bed.

And I'm holding this journal that, like, is really, really special.

And on the first page, if I open it up, the first entry is from Tuesday, December 6th, 2016.

And the first two sentences saying,

I'm writing this from the Lost Rainforest in southeastern Madagascar.

Just writing that sentence is mind-flowing.

I left New York City on Monday, November 28th, and it took us two days.

Lost Forest. Isn't that such a, like, mysterious sounding title?

We'd call it Lost because no one knew about it, because it was a secret from the world,

until just a couple years ago when the rumors about this place surfaced and the rainforest quite literally

had to be found. And by some incredible miracle in life, I was one of the first people ever

to be on a team to go into it and to figure out what secrets it held.

He shoved me in my shoulder, and he said, shoot it.

I'm Dr. Ray Wyn Grant, and this is a different kind of nature show,

a podcast all about the human drama of saving animals. I want to tell you my story and what it's actually like to track bears and the sierras, chase lemurs and Madagascar,

live with lions in Tanzania, and do all of that as a black female scientist.

This is going wild.

It is actually so, so rare for a rainforest to be discovered like this.

You know, a rainforest that scientists haven't been through and, you know,

local people haven't been using for resources, you know, I can't, I mean, and not just in Madagascar,

I can't imagine many places on earth for which this is true, let alone a place like

Madagascar where so much conservation attention has been placed on Madagascar that

...