A resident examines damage to his house, in Gilgal village near Moulhoi, which was destroyed by a landslide.

A resident, holding an umbrella, as she walks past houses destroyed by a landslide in Gilgal village near Moulhoi.

A resident tries to salvage possessions as he examines damage to his house in Gilgal village near Moulhoi which was destroyed by a landslide.

A resident tries to salvage possessions as she examines damage to her house in Gilgal village near Moulhoi which was destroyed by a landslide.

A resident examines damage to her house, in Gilgal village near Moulhoi, which was destroyed by a landslide.

Members of the community eat a meal together on a Saturday, the day when the community works together and everyone cooks and eats together.

A man weaving fronds from a palm tree. There are many kinds of palm trees. "We pick the fruits of the morete, chili, chambira, chiwa, chonta palms. We eat the heart of the chonta, chili, taraputu, ram...

Two girls collecting flowers which to the Kichwa people of Sarayaku are the symbol of their resistance to the threat to the rain forest.

Children play in a canoe on the Rio Bobonaza. The river is the main link between the people of Sararyaku and the world outside of the forest. It takes four hours by motor canoe to reach the heart of t...

A member of the community uses a machette to clear vegetation from the school. Saturdays is a day when the community works together and everyone cooks and eats together.

Jade Gualinga eats a water melon snack while sitting in a canoe on the Rio Bobonaza. Sarayaku has the vision and mission to 'preserve and use in a sustainable way the natural resources of its territo...

Sarayaku is governed by the traditional Kichwa authorities (Kurakas system). The assemblies are the heart of Sarayaku's community life. All decisions are taken after consultation with the inhabitants...

A child chases a light aeroplane along a dirt runway that allows small planes to land for health reasons or for visits by political or administrative personalities. The Kichwa people of Sarrayku refu...

Jade is preparing her books for school.

Walkanga bathing with her little brother in a small stream. The native peoples of the Amazon have a holistic vision of the Pachamama: "It is not simply a landscape or aesthetic relationship, but the...

Children playing the large square that the community is organised around and where important events take place. The main community includes several schools, an old mission, a women's house and a commu...

A girl crosses a gully using a length of wood.

Jade carrying a handful of fish caught that day in the Rio Bobonaza. Children participate in all community activities with their parents, and from an early age become familiar with hunting and fishing...

The Gualinga girls cut the stinger off a scorpion and put it on a leash to play with, like a pet.

A boy squats inside a building lit by candles and torchlight.

Maya plays in the water before washing clothes. There's no drinking water, no sewage and no sanitation, just an ecological bathroom.

Jose and Sabina cut banana leaves in their family 'chacra' (farm). They will be used for cooking and to make a floor mat for a forest camp.

The indigenous Kichwa people of Sarayaku are located in the Amazon region of Ecuador, on the Bobonaza River. It is composed of seven community centres in a territory of 135,000 hectares. 95% of the Sa...

A young woman brushes her hair. Teenagers in the community often find themselves between two worlds, modernity and tradition.

All members of the family have their own task, children included. Maya and her sisters come every day to hand-wash the clothes in the river.

Men drinking 'Chicha, ak'a in Quechua', an Andean drink found in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela and Colombia. It is made from corn, peanuts (mani), cassava (yuca) or rice (arroz) to which fruit is...

Sabine Bouchat, who came from Belgium to live in the Sarayaku community when she was 19 years old where she fell in love with Jose Gualinga, one of the leaders of the Sarayaku community. They recentl...

A man sleeping in a hammock. Typically, the living area is outside, around the hammocks. After a day of working in the humid heat people will rest and socialise for a few minutes before going to sleep...

A woman and children check a girl's scalp for headlice. Among the Sarayaku, head lice is an exciting game, and the girls quarrel to do it.

A child plays with a balloon in a village clearing.

Sleeping in the forest remains a fairly commonplace activity for children who accompany their parents to temporary camps.

A man wades chest deep into the Rio Bobonaza in order to check fishing nets laid earlier.

Children jumping into the Rio Bobonaza from the branches that overhang the river.

A girl collecting flowers which to the Kichwa people of Sarayaku are the symbol of their resistance to the threat to the rain forest.

Antonio and Lucia are finishing their diner which has been cooked and served on leaves. Leaves are useful for anything, as a mattress, as a drug, as a roof, as a basket, and also as an oven where fish...

In the village a kindergarten and elementary school that integrates both traditional knowledge and the national curriculum has been created by the Yachak Association of Sarayaku (Atayak) to perpetuate...

Preparation of the traditional drink called 'Chicha', made with fermented yucca. Sarayaku tradition is to mix the smashed yucca with female members of the community's saliva. Girls and women have to c...

A group set up a camp in the forest.Setting up a camp can take up to an hour, often ending with the arrival of nightfall.

A man carries a load of palm leaves through the forest. The kichwa economy is 90% subsistence, depending mainly on agriculture and forest resources such as hunting, fishing, fruit picking, honey, palm...

The 'chacra', a farm, will last the time of a harvest, more or less two years. Afterwards, the land will be returned to nature for a minimum of ten to fifteen years. On this land, palm trees and fruit...

Children look at the Rio Bobonaza from a bridge that is their route to school. When classes are over the children play around the bridge and jump from it to the water.

Walkanga playing with a mobile phone while lying beneath a mosquito net. The houses are often raised from the ground, with the lower part serving as kitchen and living room. The habitat is made with...

Walkanga and Jade are playing by the water. Children become familiar with water and the use of dugout canoes at a very early age.

A girl paddles in the Rio Bobonaza. The river is the main link between the people of Sararyaku and the world outside of the forest. It takes four hours by motor canoe to reach the heart of the Sarayak...

A part of the forest canopy illuminated by a strong artificial light.

Children looking at a smartphone before they go to sleep.

A man hunting in the forest. Hunting is common: two species of wild boar (wanta, watusa), different kinds of birds. More rarely: the tapir, which is in danger of extinction, some monkeys, the armadill...

A woman walking through the forest, a daily activity to set up camp for a hunting or fishing trip or to go to school.

Members of the community use their machettes to clear vegetation from the school. Saturdays is a day when the community works together and everyone cooks and eats together. shel

Women walk through the legs of a huge cut out figure of movie star Dolph Lungren in his film role as The Punisher.

A street cleaner working on a rainy day.

People queue in the rain to buy shoes.

People walking in the rain in the Gustav Mahlerplein financial district in Amsterdam South.

A 'welcome to Kabul' sign.

Malte, a Coton de Tulear, 11 years old. "Malte has been to the dog cinema several times, he is happy as long as he is here. He hates being alone. He loves to get out for a walk, no matter if it's w...

Arsham, in the foreground, and Arash behind him, look into the sky on a rainy day in Kayseri. A conservative business hub, Kayseri is home to many Iranian LGBT asylum seekers, with some complaining of...

A child begging for money or food from people in a car stuck in traffic in central Kabul.

A child begging for money or food from people in a car stuck in traffic in central Kabul.

Refugees who have crossed from Ukraine at the Palanca border point wait for onward tranportation.

People wait for refugees who have crossed from Ukraine at the Palanca border point.

Yelena (67) shelters from rain beneath an umbrella. The war in Ukraine divided families and friends. Yelena says she has two sons, one is pro-Russian and the other pro-Ukrainian. The brothers don't ta...

Tanya (70) shelters from the rain beneath an umbrella. When she hears exploding bombs she says she is very scared and while some people have become used to the explosions she hasn't and is always scar...

The headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross (Comite international de la Croix Rouge) after a sudden rain storm. The ICRC (CICR) is "an impartial, neutral and independent organisat...

The headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross (Comite international de la Croix Rouge) after a sudden rain storm. The ICRC (CICR) is "an impartial, neutral and independent organisat...

The headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross (Comite international de la Croix Rouge) after a sudden rain storm. The ICRC (CICR) is "an impartial, neutral and independent organisat...

The headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross (Comite international de la Croix Rouge) after a sudden rain storm. The ICRC (CICR) is "an impartial, neutral and independent organisat...

The headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross (Comite international de la Croix Rouge) after a sudden rain storm. The ICRC (CICR) is "an impartial, neutral and independent organisat...

The headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross (Comite international de la Croix Rouge) after a sudden rain storm. The ICRC (CICR) is "an impartial, neutral and independent organisat...

Fans watch the 35th annual Selcuk Camel Wrestling Festival competition near Izmir, Turkey. The event usually draws large crowds of up to 20 thousand, although this year the numbers were lower due to r...

Spectators watch the 35th annual Selcuk Camel Wrestling Festival competition near Izmir, Turkey. The event usually draws large crowds of up to 20 thousand, although this year the numbers were lower du...

Ali Reza (L, 28) and Pedram (19), from Tehran and Shiraz, Iran. They live together in a house well known amongst the Iranian LGBT community, Ali Reza and Pedram place a plastic sheet over their garden...

A food delivery rider working at night in the rain.

A food delivery rider working at night in the rain.

A food delivery rider on his scooter in the rain.

Jim and Ined Humphries drink coffee in front of their temporary home, a leaking caravan they have covered with a trampoline to protect them from the rain. Jim and Ined Humphries lost their home in a h...

Modjadji Forest is a sacred site for the Rain Queen of the Balebodu Kingdom. The Rain Queen is thought to have magical powers, including the power to induce rain, which have been passed from mother to...

Phiphidi Falls, a sacred site of the Vha-Venda people and the Modjadji Rain Queen.

A rock engraving and painting by San people. The San signified their spiritual connections to the land through rock engravings and paintings. At this spot the /Xam people would invoke the rain,

Park Ranger Donald Ndongo on the edge of a river in the Lope National Park. Gabon is looking to refocus its national economy to sustainable forestry due to declining oil reserves. The Congo Basin rain...

Large tree trunks lie on railway carriages in the Gabon Special Economic Zone, a controlled hub for the extraction of timber on a sustainable basis. All timber is traced. Gabon is looking to refocus i...

Lee White, former botanist and now Gabon's Minister for the Environment, stands next to an Okoume tree. The okoume tree (aucoumea klaineana) is a popular source of plywood due to its lightness and fle...

Lee White, former botanist and now Gabon's Minister for the Environment, stands next to an Okoume tree. The okoume tree (aucoumea klaineana) is a popular source of plywood due to its lightness and fle...

A forest canopy visible from the air in the Congo Basin rain forest in Gabon. Gabon is looking to refocus its national economy to sustainable forestry due to declining oil reserves. The Congo Basin ra...

Dense forest in Gabon. Gabon is looking to refocus its national economy to sustainable forestry due to declining oil reserves. The Congo Basin rain forest covers 90% of the country and is known as the...

Dense forest in Gabon. Gabon is looking to refocus its national economy to sustainable forestry due to declining oil reserves. The Congo Basin rain forest covers 90% of the country and is known as the...

A forest canopy visible from the air in the Congo Basin rain forest in Gabon. Gabon is looking to refocus its national economy to sustainable forestry due to declining oil reserves. The Congo Basin ra...

A forest canopy in the mist, visible from the air in the Congo Basin rain forest in Gabon. Gabon is looking to refocus its national economy to sustainable forestry due to declining oil reserves. The C...

An okoume tree (aucoumea klaineana), a popular source of plywood due to its lightness and flexibility. Gabon is looking to refocus its national economy to sustainable forestry due to declining oil re...

Tanguy Gaouma, the head of Gabon's National Climate Council. Gabon is looking to refocus its national economy to sustainable forestry due to declining oil reserves. The Congo Basin rain forest covers...

Tanguy Gaouma, the head of Gabon's National Climate Council. Gabon is looking to refocus its national economy to sustainable forestry due to declining oil reserves. The Congo Basin rain forest covers...