On the trail of Maya vanilla: The regenerative project reviving a fragile species in the Mexican jungle

His father had recently passed away, and Gonzalo Samaranch, still young, left Barcelona to seek refuge in the only place even slightly deeper than his grief: the Brazilian Amazon. He spent eight months immersed in the jungle, spending his nights, alert and still, on platforms built in the treetops, waiting to hunt the animals he would eat in the morning. One day, he had a vision. “I saw myself in the future, in a jungle, growing food, married to an Indigenous woman, and in a place with an underground river. That’s exactly what I’m doing today,” says Samaranch, now 50 years old.

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