Next Wave

Matt and Jo's trip to Belize is interrupted by Hurricane Iris, the most powerful storm of the year.

Matt Tomaszewski and Jo Rush spend a week with the Huarani Indians of Ecuador -a culture about to be swamped by the outside world.

Matt Tomaszewski and Jo Rush made the long journey down to Patagonia with Dr Michelle Wainstein, a biologist with the often hazardous task of studying the genetics of Bull Elephant seals.

Matt Tomaszewski and Jo Rush make a pilgrimage to the Galapagos Islands now in the middle of an, at times, nasty fight between conservation and commercialism.

Matt Tomaszewski and Jo Rush are in Guyana to meet local botanist Suroj Tiwari, a man passionate about medicinal plants.

Matt Tomaszewski and Jo Rush head into the forests of belize to track down South America's deadliest snake.

Matt Tomaszewski and Jo Rush travel to Bolivia to hunt the giant toad of Ahlfeld Falls.

Matt Tomaszewski and Jo Rush go hunting with the Kayapo Indians of Northern Brazil.

Matt Tomaszewski and Jo Rush travel to Brazil to meet its newest and bravest farmers.

Matt Tomaszewski and Jo Rush meet biologists Eduardo Asanza and his wife Ana Sosa in Equador. Eduardo takes Jo on a night hunt for caimans while Ana takes Matt up onto her rainforest platform -at the top of a thirty metre tree. It was the climb of his life.

Matt Tomaszewski and Jo Rush travel to Guatemala to meet archaeologist Stanley Guenter. At just 26 Stanley is rewriting Mayan history by uncovering a lost century full of intrigue, civilwar and murder. His story starts at a place called Tikal.

Matt Tomaszewski and Jo Rush travel to the Dominican Republic to meet David Howard a social geographer who has spent the last four years coming here to study racism. As Matt and Jo found out, racism here is closely associated with voodoo.

Jo Rush and Matt Tomaszewski travel to the Bahamas to meet cave-diver ,Dr Thomas Iliffe who has come across life forms in caves that no one knew existed.