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  • DAYAK, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia.  Women and children. Weaving rattan sack on longhouse verandah. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • DAYAK, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia.  Weaving rattan mat on longhouse verandah. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
    sarawak_borneo288.jpg
  • DAYAK GIRL, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia.  Dayak girl with rattan rucksack. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
    sarawak_borneo335.jpg
  • DAYAK, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia. Weaving rattan in longhouse verandah. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
    sarawak_borneo296.jpg
  • DAYAK GIRL, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia.  Dayak girl with rattan rucksack. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
    sarawak_borneo336.jpg
  • DAYAK, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia.  Women and children. Weaving rattan sack on longhouse verandah. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
    sarawak_borneo295.jpg
  • 1991: Kenyah natives, women and children. She is weaving a traditional rattan sack from rainforest materials, on longhouse verandah. Long Geng, Belaga district, Sarawak, Borneo<br />
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Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
    sarawak_borneo294.jpg
  • DAYAK, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia. Dayak woman with tattoos.  Weaving rattan on longhouse verandah. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
    sarawak_borneo291.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Man plaiting rattan in hammock inside traditional Molaca or Shabono dwelling. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
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  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Woman with child in hammock, iving inside Molaca or Shabono traditional dwelling. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil050.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Woman with child in hammock, iving inside Molaca or Shabono traditional dwelling. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil048.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Children in hammock, iving inside Molaca or Shabono traditional dwelling. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil042.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Family outside Molaca or Shabono traditional dwelling. Living by the river in traditional dwelling. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil039.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Child inside Molaca or Shabono traditional dwelling. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil026.jpg
  • DAYAK, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia. Dayak, 'Kenyah', woman and child in papoose. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
    sarawak_borneo158.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Woman with child in hammock, iving inside Molaca or Shabono traditional dwelling. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil049.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Woman with child in hammock, iving inside Molaca or Shabono traditional dwelling. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil047.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Boys with bows and arrows. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil031.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Yanomami with university development. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil030.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Family outside Molaca or Shabono traditional dwelling, after forest fires. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil029.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Family suffering Malaria, outside Molaca or Shabono traditional dwelling. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil028.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Family suffering Malaria, outside Molaca or Shabono traditional dwelling. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil027.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Living inside Molaca or Shabono traditional dwelling. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil017.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil014.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil006.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil004.jpg
  • YANOMAMI TRADITIONAL LIFESTYLES , Amazon, near Boavista, northern Brazil, South America. Ecological biosphere and fragile ecosystem where flora and fauna, and native lifestyles are threatened by progress and development. The rainforest is home to many plants and animals who are endangered or facing extinction. This region is home to indigenous primitive and tribal peoples including the Yanomami and Macuxi.
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  • YANOMAMI TRADITIONAL LIFESTYLES , Amazon, near Boavista, northern Brazil, South America. Ecological biosphere and fragile ecosystem where flora and fauna, and native lifestyles are threatened by progress and development. The rainforest is home to many plants and animals who are endangered or facing extinction. This region is home to indigenous primitive and tribal peoples including the Yanomami and Macuxi.
    brazil520.JPG
  • DAYAK, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia. Dayak, 'Kenyah', woman and child in papoose. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
    sarawak_borneo159.jpg
  • LOGGING, NOMADIC PENAN, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia.  Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
    sarawak_borneo069.jpg
  • Asia, Philippines, Manilla, Smokey Mountain Rubbish dump. Child secures his basket. Thousands of poor and often indigenous people work sifting through the rubbish, recycling materials such as paper, various metal and plastic. They earn about $1 a day. The place is rife with disease.Photograph © Nigel Dickinson
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  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Traditional round Molaca or Shabono dwelling.Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil038.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Children playing. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil032.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Woman making yam flour inside Molaca or Shabono traditional dwelling. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil024.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Woman with child in hammock, iving inside Molaca or Shabono traditional dwelling. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil023.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Woman with child in hammock, iving inside Molaca or Shabono traditional dwelling. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil022.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Woman with child in hammock, iving inside Molaca or Shabono traditional dwelling. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil020.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Living inside Molaca or Shabono traditional dwelling. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil016.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Living inside Molaca or Shabono traditional dwelling. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil015.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil009.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil002.jpg
  • YANOMAMI TRADITIONAL LIFESTYLES , Amazon, near Boavista, northern Brazil, South America. Ecological biosphere and fragile ecosystem where flora and fauna, and native lifestyles are threatened by progress and development. The rainforest is home to many plants and animals who are endangered or facing extinction. This region is home to indigenous primitive and tribal peoples including the Yanomami and Macuxi.
    brazil527.JPG
  • DAYAK, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia. Dayak, 'Kenyah', woman and child in papoose. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
    sarawak_borneo157.jpg
  • Asia, Philippines, Manilla, Smokey Mountain Rubbish dump. Thousands of poor and often indigenous people work sifting through the rubbish, recycling materials such as paper, various metal and plastic. They earn about $1 a day. The place is rife with disease.Photograph © Nigel Dickinson
    philippines127.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Child with hammock, living inside Molaca or Shabono traditional dwelling. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil045.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Wild bird chicken in Molaca or Shabono traditional anomami dwelling. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil043.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Woman with child in hammock, iving inside Molaca or Shabono traditional dwelling. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil041.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Bridge building development access to Indian lands. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil036.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Children playing. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil033.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Woman with child in hammock, iving inside Molaca or Shabono traditional dwelling. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil021.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Living inside Molaca or Shabono traditional dwelling. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil019.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil013.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil012.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
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  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil007.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
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  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
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  • YANOMAMI TRADITIONAL LIFESTYLES , Amazon, near Boavista, northern Brazil, South America. Ecological biosphere and fragile ecosystem where flora and fauna, and native lifestyles are threatened by progress and development. The rainforest is home to many plants and animals who are endangered or facing extinction. This region is home to indigenous primitive and tribal peoples including the Yanomami and Macuxi.
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  • YANOMAMI TRADITIONAL LIFESTYLES , Amazon, near Boavista, northern Brazil, South America. Ecological biosphere and fragile ecosystem where flora and fauna, and native lifestyles are threatened by progress and development. The rainforest is home to many plants and animals who are endangered or facing extinction. This region is home to indigenous primitive and tribal peoples including the Yanomami and Macuxi.
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  • DAYAK & DOGS, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia.  Dayak woman with hunting dogs. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • DAYAK, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia. Woman sorting the chaff from rice, next to  her sulap house. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Family outside Molaca or Shabono traditional dwelling. Living by the river in traditional dwelling. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
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  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Traditional round Molaca or Shabono dwelling.Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil037.jpg
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil011.jpg
  • DAYAK, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia.  Woman with baby in papoose in longhouse. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • DAYAK, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia.  Woman with baby in papoose in longhouse. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • 1989: Semi-nomadic Penan native, Banai Tebai, smokes a cigarette inside a 'sulap' settlement made from bamboo, wood and rattan. Long Tedang, Limbang district, Sarawak, Borneo<br />
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Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • 1989: Penan native woman and her child, families of Along Sega and Awing Banai,  in sulap structure made from bamboo, wood and rattan. Long Tedang, Limbang district, Sarawak, Borneo <br />
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Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • August 2012: Baru living a traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle, with blowpipe and rattan rucksack, in primary rainforest twenty years later. Penan indigenous native, who was nomadic decades ago, have been forced to move up-river, to settled accomodation, far from his original hunting-gathering grounds. Near Long Gita, Limbang district, Sarawak, Borneo<br />
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The sound of chainsaws is not too distant, oil palm plantations are looming and the pipeline is right next door. What will the future hold for them? Long Adang and Long Gita, Limbang Sarawak, Borneo..The huge Petronas Sabah-Sarawak pipeline is being built across the Borneo rainforest through native areas. Petronas is the government cash cow which funds about 45% of its budget. New roads are being built, though much of the transport follows the existing roads and infrastructure created by logging. Whilst the government heralds the project as a source of jobs for local people, it is unlikely to bring much but wanton damage to rainforest habitat and paving the way for further deforestation by oil palm plantations.<br />
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Sarawak's primary rainforests have been systematically logged over decades, threatening the sustainable lifestyle of its indigenous peoples who relied on nomadic hunter-gathering and rotational slash & burn cultivation of small areas of forest to survive. Now only a few areas of pristine rainforest remain; for the Dayaks and Penan this spells disaster, a rapidly disappearing way of life, forced re-settlement, many becoming wage-slaves. Large and medium size tree trunks have been sawn down and dragged out by bulldozers, leaving destruction in their midst, and for the most part a primary rainforest ecosystem beyond repair. Nowadays palm oil plantations and hydro-electric dam projects cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of what was the world's oldest rainforest ecosystem which had some of the highest rates of flora and fauna endemism, species found there and nowhere else on Earth
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  • 1989: Semi-nomadic Penan native, Baru at his home, a traditional Penan 'sulap' settlement made from bamboo, wood and rattan. Long Tedang, Limbang district, Sarawak, Borneo<br />
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Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • 1989: Semi-nomadic Penan native, Banai Tebai, smokes a cigarette inside a 'sulap' settlement made from bamboo, wood and rattan. Long Tedang, Limbang district, Sarawak, Borneo<br />
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Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • Twenty three years ago: Baru and Banai Tebai standing in front of a temporary 'sulap' structure, made from a mixture of timber, bamboo and rattan. Semi-nomadic Penan, indigenous hunter-gatherers, dressed in traditional 'chawats' loincloth. Long Tegang, Limbang district, Sarawak, Borneo 1989<br />
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Semi-Nomadic Penan, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia. Penan men with their sulap settlement  . Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • 1989: Penan natives. Baru (LHS), Banai Tebai (2nd LHS) and Rasa (RHS) and extended family. Living a semi-nomadic lifestyle.Their 'sulap' temporary settlement, made from wood, bamboo and rattan is behind. Long Tedang, Sarawak, Borneo.<br />
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Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • Women from the Kenyah tribe making traditional bags from plastic instead of rattan, which would be found in the rain forest...Sungai Asap Longhouse community where Long Geng Kenyah community was forcibly resettled after their homes where flooded by the Bakun Dam. Home of the Kenyah native people who once lived in Long Geng, which was flooded by the Bakun Dam. Their community is now dispersed between Sungai Asap, Long Lewan and floating longhouses on the Bakun reservoir. Bakun Belaga region, Sarawak Borneo 2012..The huge Petronas Sabah-Sarawak pipeline is being built across the Borneo rainforest through native areas. Petronas is the government cash cow which funds about 45% of its budget. New roads are being built, though much of the transport follows the existing roads and infrastructure created by logging. Whilst the government heralds the project as a source of jobs for local people, it is unlikely to bring much but wanton damage to rainforest habitat and paving the way for further deforestation by oil palm plantations. ..Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991-2012. ..Sarawak's primary rainforests have been systematically logged over decades, threatening the sustainable lifestyle of its indigenous peoples who relied on nomadic hunter-gathering and rotational slash & burn cultivation of small areas of forest to survive. Now only a few areas of pristine rainforest remain; for the Dayaks and Penan this spells disaster, a rapidly disappearing way of life, forced re-settlement, many becoming wage-slaves. Large and medium size tree trunks have been sawn down and dragged out by bulldozers, leaving destruction in their midst, and for the most part a primary rainforest ecosystem beyond repair. Nowadays palm oil plantations and hydro-electric dam projects cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of what was the world's oldest rainforest ecosystem which had some of the highest rates of flora and fauna endemism, species found
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