Dr Andrew Kitchener, the Principal curator for Vertebrates at the National Museum of Scotland, pictured in the museum archives in Granton with taxidermy deer including the red deer (at left). High den...

Dr Andrew Kitchener, the Principal curator for Vertebrates at the National Museum of Scotland, pictured in the museum archives in Granton with taxidermy deer including the red deer (at left). High den...

Dr Andrew Kitchener, the Principal curator for Vertebrates at the National Museum of Scotland, pictured in the museum archives in Granton with taxidermy deer including the red deer (at left). High den...

A man man crouches next to the lifeless body of Baz Mohamed, a young boy who had just died from injuries caused by a 'butterfly mine'. The mines, dropped by Russian (Soviet) helicopters, have 'wings'...

A drunk resident of the Quilombola (Afro-Brazilian) community of Pedras Negras passed out on a bench. The process of providing land deeds to communities started by former slaves was already slow befor...

Recent deforestation in the municipality of Apui, along the Trans-Amazonian highway in the south of Amazonas State. Apui is on the front line of agricultural expansion in the Amazon, the seventh most...

Recent deforestation in the municipality of Apui, along the Trans-Amazonian highway in the south of Amazonas State. Apui is on the front line of agricultural expansion in the Amazon, the seventh most...

Landless Sebastiao Pereira (70) rests 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....

Xikrin warriors arrive at Rapko village after a jungle expedition to remove invaders from the Trincheira Bacaja Indigenous Land which had part of their area invaded and cleared by land grabbers. Aband...

A homeless family builds an improvised shack on squated land invaded by landless people on the outskirts of Manaus, next to the city's Industrial Zone.

Wadeye police station and courthouse positioned on the main road in the middle of town. The area on the main road around the police station and courthouse has been the location of much of the town's v...

Wadeye police station and courthouse positioned on the main road in the middle of town. The area on the main road around the police station and courthouse has been the location of much of the town's v...

A priest leads a church service of Batwa (pygmy) people who were displaced from their forest homes. Until 1992 the Batwa people lived in the forests of Western Uganda but they had to make way for the...

A Batwa (pygmy) woman smokes a pipe outside a church-built shelter where members of the Batwa live in abject poverty. Until 1992 the Batwa people lived in the forests of Western Uganda but they had to...

A Batwa (pygmy) woman and her children outside a shelter where they live in abject poverty. Until 1992 the Batwa people lived in the forests of Western Uganda but they had to make way for the mountain...

A priest leads a church service of Batwa (pygmy) people who were displaced from their forest homes. Until 1992 the Batwa people lived in the forests of Western Uganda but they had to make way for the...

A priest leads a church service of Batwa (pygmy) people who were displaced from their forest homes. Until 1992 the Batwa people lived in the forests of Western Uganda but they had to make way for the...

A Batwa (pygmy) woman smokes a pipe outside a church-built shelter where members of the Batwa live in abject poverty. Until 1992 the Batwa people lived in the forests of Western Uganda but they had to...

Batwa (pygmy) women wash clothes outside a shelter where they live in abject poverty. Until 1992 the Batwa people lived in the forests of Western Uganda but they had to make way for the mountain goril...

Shelters made from plastic sheeting and wood housing members of the Batwa (pygmy) people. Until 1992 the Batwa people lived in the forests of Western Uganda but they had to make way for the mountain g...

Francis Sembagare, a Batwa (pygmies) elder, teaches his child how to use a bow and arrow. Francis has known life in the rain forest, and tries to pass on old traditions, hunting techniques and knowled...

Francis Sembagare, a Batwa (pygmies) elder, teaches his child how to use a bow and arrow. Francis has known life in the rain forest, and tries to pass on old traditions, hunting techniques and knowled...

A priest leads a church service of Batwa (pygmy) people who were displaced from their forest homes. Until 1992 the Batwa people lived in the forests of Western Uganda but they had to make way for the...

A priest leads a church service of Batwa (pygmy) people who were displaced from their forest homes. Until 1992 the Batwa people lived in the forests of Western Uganda but they had to make way for the...

Francis Sembagare, a Batwa (pygmies) elder, teaches his child how to use a bow and arrow. Francis has known life in the rain forest, and tries to pass on old traditions, hunting techniques and knowled...

A hut built by Francis Sembagare, a Batwa (pygmy) elder, has known life in the rain forest, and tries to pass on old traditions, hunting techniques and knowledge of plants and animals to his children....

Francis Sembagare, a Batwa (pygmies) elder, has known life in the rain forest, and tries to pass on old traditions, hunting techniques and knowledge of plants and animals to his children. He is involv...

A deforested area near Anapu, one of the municipalities impacted by the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam. With the end of the construction, many workers who had migrated to the region ended up staying in...

Men work in a gold mine in Peixoto de Azevedo in northern Mato Grosso.

Landless Sebastiao Pereira (70) rests 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.

An area deforested by land grabbers in the Trincheira Bacaja Indigenous Land. Activists have pointed to President Bolsonaro's speeches denigrating indigenous populations as a stimulus for the invaders...

Xikrin warriors arrive at Rapko village after a jungle expedition to remove invaders from the Trincheira Bacaja Indigenous Land which had part of their area invaded and cleared by land grabbers. Aband...

Lindiwe Ndlovu tries to help Victoria Maphalale moments before she had a seizure after a violent clash between Metro Police and community members. The shack had been filled with people taking shelter...

A Metro Policeman arrests a community member as residents resisted the so-called Red Ants who, backed-up by the Metro Police, were trying to make evictions at Lakeview Informal Settlement near Lawley....

Stanley Zaki (58) was shot in the neck with a rubber bullet from close range by Metro police. The rubber bullet was left buried in his flesh. The injury was recieved during fighting between residents...

Members of the so-called Red Ants threaten a resident of Lakeview during violent clashes between the Red Ants and people resisting eviction at Lakeview Informal Settlement near Lawley. The Red Ants ar...

So-called Red Ants charge at a group of people resisting eviction at Lakeview Informal Settlement near Lawley. The Red Ants are a controversial private security company often hired to clear squatters...

Two men armed with rocks and pole look at a group of so-called Red Ants during a lull in the fighting between residents and the Red Ants and Metro Police trying to make evictions at Lakeview Informal...

Fishermen land a recently caught manta ray.

Three men hurry across a beach when they see whales approaching land during the whaling season in Hvannasund. While international animal rights groups criticise the hunt as being cruel and unnecessary...

Eurotides Paulo da Silva (54) says he lost some of his grandfather's property, producing a document dated 1991 that shows title to land he says is on the plateau. Eurotides discovered the property...

The desert village of Darvaza, north of Ashgabat, has been emptied by the former president Saparmurat Niyazov Turkmenbashi. He decided to move the nomadic population of Darwaza closer to the city. The...

The destroyed desert village of Darvaza, north of Ashgabat. The former president Saparmurat Niyazov Turkmenbashi decided to move the nomadic population of Darwaza closer to the city. They had lived he...

Ivica Vojtulek (57) spent 10 years inside 'Cepin Home for Adults with Mental Health Problems' before moving into an apartment in 2012 as part of deinstitutionalisation program led by the director of t...

Yaks grazing on grassland besides Gyaring Lake. The Tibetan plateau covers all of the Tibet Autonomous Region, much of Qinghai province, and parts of Sichuan province, stretching for 965,000 square m...

A couple at their home in the Pozo Barranquero community. The family has been living in this house for over 100 years, but they never had ownership rights to the property. In 2003, the person who held...

The remains of a bike outside a house in Pozo Barranquero community. The family has been living in this house for over 100 years, but they never had ownership rights to the property. In 2003, the pers...

A smallholder sets off a firecracker to alert the population that pesticide fumigation is taking place on large scale farmland near their community. The warning acts as a signal to occupy the soyabean...

A burned bed is one of the few remains of the Guayaqui Cua peasant community following their eviction two days earlier by security men from a nearby cattle-ranch, who together with local police office...

Smoldering remains of the Guayaqui Cua peasant community following their eviction two days earlier by security men from a nearby cattle-ranch, who together with local police officers, acted on behalf...

Maria Lina Estorales cries while explaining how she and the other 21 families of the small community of Guayaqui Cua were evicted and their properties burned just two days earlier. She stated that sec...

Cindy, a gay Ugandan refugee living in Nairobi where he is supported by NGO Nature Network. Cindy was arrested while trying to register at the UNHCR and was then sent to the Kakuma Refugee Camp in nor...

Close quarters fighting between the Red Ants and a community of people defending their homes illegally built on private land. A member of the Red Ants confronts a man holding a machette during a so-ca...

A man lies dead after being shot (allegedly) by the Red Ants during a so-called 'demolition' operation to clear dwellings and evict squatters from land in Vlakfontein. The violent action resulted in t...

Isaac Mofali lies dying after being mortally wounded in close quarters fighting between the Red Ants and a community of people defending their homes built on squatted land in Vlakfontein. The Red Ants...

A member of the Red Ants brandishes a shot gun during a so-called 'demolition' operation to clear dwellings and evict squatters from land in Vlakfontein. The violent action resulted in the deaths of t...

Members of the Red Ants demolish shacks that had been built illegally on private land. The Red Ants are a controversial private security company often hired to clear squatters from land and so-called...

A member of the Red Ants carries off rocks used to mark out shacks on land by squatters intending set up an informal settlement. The Red Ants are a controversial private security company often hired t...

Close quarters fighting between the Red Ants and a community of people defending their homes illegally built on private land. A member of the Red Ants confronts a man holding a machette during a so-ca...

Nokulunga Mbangi cries after being told that her husband Isaac Mofali had been killed by the Red Ants. He was (allegedly) beaten to death with crowbars. She is comforted by her sister-in-law Sophie Mo...

The Red Ants evict residents and destroy an informal settlement near Pomona. The Red Ants are a controversial private security company often hired to clear squatters from land and so-called 'hijacked...

The Red Ants evict residents and destroy an informal settlement near Pomona. The Red Ants are a controversial private security company often hired to clear squatters from land and so-called 'hijacked...

A member of the Red Ant security company. Many Red Ants cover their faces or wear masks on operations to protect their identity for fear of retribution as they evict people from their own communities...

A Red Ants Task Team member (leader), directs a group of his men as they demolish shacks that had been built illegally on private land. The Red Ants are a controversial private security company often...

Members of the Red Ants walk among the burning remnants of shacks that had been built illegally on private land have were demolished and burned by the security force. The Red Ants are a controversial...

After demolishing shacks, the metal sheeting used for walls and roofing are stacked up for removal at the Skoonplaas informal settlement.

The Red Ants evict a small community from a disputed piece of land in Capital Park, Pretoria. Some members of the community claim to have lived there for 30 years. A white-owned consortium who claim t...

A resident tries to salvage some of her things as the Red Ants evict residents and destroy an informal settlement near Pomona. The Red Ants are a controversial private security company often hired to...

A man carries a few of his possessions as the Red Ants evict residents and destroy an informal settlement near Pomona. The Red Ants are a controversial private security company often hired to clear s...

The Red Ants evict residents and destroy an informal settlement near Pomona. The Red Ants are a controversial private security company often hired to clear squatters from land and so-called 'hijacked...

A mother and child look at their possessions assembled on the street in front of the house where they lived in Evaton after the Red Ants moved in and cleared residents from their homes. The Red Ants...

A resident grabs what he can as the Red Ants evict people and destroy an informal settlement near Pomona. The Red Ants are a controversial private security company often hired to clear squatters from...

Members of the Red Ants clear illegal electricity connections in an informal settlement near KwaThema. The Red Ants are a controversial private security company often hired to clear squatters from la...

Aaron Katzov waters a tree outside his house in the Jewish settlement of Esh Kodesh. He says; 'I feel I contribute to what is the core of Zionism. That Israel, the land of the Jews, will expand'.

An Israeli flag flies at the archaeological site of ancient Shiloh (Khirbet Seilun).

The Jewish settlement Har Homa in the West Bank near Bethlehem.

A billboard sign reads: 'Land Grabbing is a Crime...Justice not Greed'. Erected by a local NGO/human rights organisation in protest at the damaged caused by the failure of the Addax bioenergy plant.

Mayan Q'eqchi, Mawra Cuc (25) who was involved in the successful fight against the attempt by Inversiones Cobra SA, a banana plantation and palm oil company, to appropriate land in the Polochic Valley...

Mayan Q'eqchi community leader and human rights activist Maria Cuc Choc (39) who helped lead the successful fight against the attempt by Inversiones Cobra SA, a banana plantation and palm oil company,...

Candalaria Baj (50), a Mayan Q'eqchi, at her home among one of the communities of the Polochic Valley. She is from one of 80 families, from three communities, who resisted a court ordered eviction a...

Mayan Q'eqchi elder Vicente Xi Seb (71) who was involved in the struggle to prevent agribusinesses appropriating land farmed by the community of Nuevo Esperanza Tunico, in the Polochic Valley.

Mayan Q'eqchi village elder Carmen Choc (53) who was involved in the struggle to prevent agribusinesses appropriating land farmed by the community of Nuevo Esperanza Tunico, in the Polochic Valley.

Mayan Q'eqchi elder Miguel Cucul (73) who was involved in the struggle to prevent agribusinesses appropriating land farmed by the community of Nuevo Esperanza Tunico, in the Polochic Valley.

Mayan Q'eqchi farmer Vicente Suj Max (38) who was involved in the struggle to prevent agribusinesses appropriating land farmed by the community of Nuevo Esperanza Tunico, in the Polochic Valley.

A plot of land farmed by a family from the indigenous Mayan Q'eqchi community of Nuevo Esperanza Tunico, surrounded by a palm oil plantation run by an agribusiness. The family, one of 80 from three...

A man tends to horses at the Sacred Stone protest camp. In April 2016 the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe began a protest at the Sacred Stone Camp near Cannonball, North Dakota to oppose the planned Dakota...

Diodora Hernandez looks for a calf while shepherding her cows in San Jose Nueva Esperanza. On 7 July 2010, Diodora Hernandez, a staunch anti-mining activist who has refused to sell her land, was shot...

A man unloads his possessions from a van as he moves into an apartment at Minha Casa Minha Vida, a public housing estate about two hours from the city centre.

Indigenous Kiriri, Ines Terodoro dos Santos, 17, centre with her daughters, Eliara, 14 months, top, and Isabel, 3, her husband, Edmeilson Jesus dos Santos, 20, left, and his farther, Daniel Silverio d...

The Sacred Stone protest camp. In April 2016 the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe began a protest at the Sacred Stone Camp near Cannonball, North Dakota to oppose the planned Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). S...