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

Coelocanth (Latimeria chalumnae). Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. FMNH no. 76057 and/or 97106 (scales from 2 individuals in one fluid vat). Conservation status: critically endangered. The Co...

Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis). Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: critically endangered. Once one of the most numerous of shorebirds, it has been over 40 years since th...

Left to right: Gray-breasted Wood-Wren(Henicorhina leucophrys), White-breasted Wood-Wren (H. leucosticta tropaea), Bar-winged wood-wren (Henicorhina leucoptera). Field Museum of Natural History, Chica...

In the centre of the city a group of indigenous people, the Embera Katio, have been camping for four months in front of the Ministry of the Environment to protest against the loss of their ancestral l...

In the centre of the city a group of indigenous people, the Embera Katio, have been camping for four months in front of the Ministry of the Environment to protest against the loss of their ancestral l...

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

Wheat fields bordering a highway in the Yaqui Valley. The Yaqui Valley is a wheat-producing region in northwestern Mexico constituted by family farmers that supplies the national market and bigger pro...

A queue of trucks waiting to deliver wheat for export to Ferropuerto de Sonora, a company dedicated to services for cargo transportation. The Yaqui Valley is a wheat-producing region in northwestern M...

Workers from Ferropuerto de Sonora, a company dedicated to services for cargo transportation, test wheat grain for export while it is in a queue outside the company's premises. The Yaqui Valley is a w...

A driver walks between a queue of trucks waiting to deliver wheat for export to Ferropuerto de Sonora, a company dedicated to services for cargo transportation. The Yaqui Valley is a wheat-producing r...

A Ferropuerto de Sonora worker, a company dedicated to services for cargo transportation, stands on a truck as he tests wheat grain for export. The Yaqui Valley is a wheat-producing region in northwes...

A village is surrounded but wheat fields in the Yaqui Valley. The Yaqui Valley is a wheat-producing region in northwestern Mexico constituted by family farmers that supplies the national market and bi...

A trailer enters the Productos Agricolas AOASS's installations, a multinational company that exports 48% of the wheat from Sonora. The Yaqui Valley is a wheat-producing region in northwestern Mexico c...

A queue of trucks waiting to deliver wheat for export to Ferropuerto de Sonora, a company dedicated to services for cargo transportation. The Yaqui Valley is a wheat-producing region in northwestern M...

Members of the Evangelical Association of the Israelite Mission of the New Universal Covenant butcher a lamb during a retreat in rural Benjamin Constant. The radical sect that emerged in Peru has foun...

Riwu Jumi Kanamari, an indigenous Indian man, celebrates a Christian evangelical service with his family and friends at his home in Atalaia do Norte in the Javari Valley. The growing religious fanatic...

A cotton plantation in the Parecis plateau in northwest Mato Grosso. The region, that functions as a watershed between the Amazon and La Plata basins, was rapidly developed for intensive grain agricul...

Indigenous Manoki farmers observe the movement of tractors spreading lime used to balance the soil in preparation for soybean planting. The Manoki have adopted mechanised agriculture on Irantxe Indige...

Mailon Araxi, a young indigenous Manoki, crosses the Cravari River beneath a waterfall on Irantxe Indigenous Land. Inhabiting the transition between tropical savanna (the Cerrado) and Amazon forest, t...

Paulo Marcos Tupxi, an indigenous Manoki man, removes his beekeeper's suit after collecting honey from his apiary on Irantxe Indigenous Land. Without many income alternatives, the Manoki people have b...

A sign marking a plot of land in the Terra Prometida camp, an area of rural land invaded by squatters.

A shack built by a landless family on a plot of land in the Terra Prometida camp, an area of rural land invaded by squatters.

A sign marking a plot of land in the Terra Prometida camp, an area of rural land invaded by squatters.

A billboard erected on rural farmland by supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro.

Trees being burnt for land clearance in the Bom Futuro National Forest.

A sticker featuring President Jair Bolsonaro on the side of a shack in the Boa Esperanca encampment in Vila Rio Pardo. The camp was set up last year by landless families who were removed from an area...

Jose Roberto de Jesus, leader of the Boa Esperanca encampment in Vila Rio Pardo, stands in the door of his shack. The camp was set up last year by landless families who were removed from an area of la...

Sem Terra collects water from a well in a house neighbouring their encampment in Vila Rio Pardo. The camp was set up last year by landless families who were removed from an area of land illegally inva...

A boy walks past shacks in the in Vila Rio Pardo encampment. The camp was set up last year by landless families who were removed from an area of land illegally invaded inside the Bom Futuro National F...

Landless Sebastiao Pereira (70) in his tent at a camp in Vila Rio Pardo. This camp was set up last year by families who were evacuated from an invaded area within the Bom Futuro National Forest.

Camp Boa Esperanca in Vila Rio Pardo, which was set up last year by families who were removed from an area of illegal settlement inside the Bom Futuro National Forest.

Trees being burnt for land clearance in the Bom Futuro National Forest.

Trees being burnt for land clearance in the Bom Futuro National Forest.

Dead trees in a pasture area in the municipality of Campo Novo.

The driver of a truck, seized carrying illegal timber, unloads the cargo at a warehouse of the Uruara municipality so he can take the vehicle. The truck had been seized the night before in an operatio...

Military policemen, patrolling the reserve, remove a sign erected by land invaders indicating the division of the area, within the Bom Futuro National Forest, into lots for clearing.

Riot police walk down a dirt road inside the Bom Futuro National Forest to remove invaders who had set up a camp with about 200 shacks inside the reserve. In 2019, Bom Futuro lost 874 hectares of fore...

Inspectors from the Para State Secretariat for the Environment, with the support of the military police, intercept a truck carrying a load of illegal timber during an operation to combat deforestation...

A condom production line stopped at Natex factory.

A newly deforested area within the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve.

Rubber tapper Rian Avevedo de Barros (18) extracts latex from a rubber tree in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, which is the most threatened and deforested protected area in 2019, according to IMA...

Rubber tapper Rian Avevedo de Barros (18) extracts latex from a rubber tree in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, which is the most threatened and deforested protected area in 2019, according to IMA...

Rubber tapper Rian Avevedo de Barros (18) extracts latex from a rubber tree in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, which is the most threatened and deforested protected area in 2019, according to IMA...

Children play beside a boat moored in the Dois Irmaos community on the banks of the Acre River in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve.

A condom production line stopped at Natex factory.

Cattle grazing land used by Francisco Diogo da Silva, a former rubber tapper and resident of the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, who was fined by ICMBio (environment federal agency) because of an are...