23 photographs
Overhead view of several people around a table working on a large hand-drawn map of rivers and place names.
Siekopai Nation, Ecuador · Photograph: Joel E. Correia
A large community assembly seated in the open beneath a spreading tree, with a low building behind and storm clouds overhead.
Kelyenmagategma, Paraguay · Photograph: Joel E. Correia
A large community assembly gathered on a forest road, some participants with painted faces and carrying staffs.
Y'apo, Paraguay · Photograph: Joel E. Correia
Heavy machinery grading and paving a new road cut through low forest, with workers at a distance.
Bioceanic highway construction, Boquerón, Paraguay · Photograph: Joel E. Correia
A gas flare burning at a wellpad cut into standing Amazonian forest.
Ecuadorian Amazon · Photograph: Joel E. Correia
Recent deforestation and land clearing to prepare new cattle pastures.
Boquerón, Paraguay · Photograph: Joel E. Correia
Development pressures encroach upon Enxet and Sanapaná territories in the Bajo Chaco.
Xákmok Kásek, Paraguay · Photograph: Joel E. Correia
A boundary between the ancestral lands claimed by the Yakye Axa community and where they were dispossessed to the margin of a highway (photograph from 2016).
Yakye Axa, Bajo Chaco, Paraguay · Photograph: Joel E. Correia
Aerial panorama of a cable-stayed bridge under construction across the Río Paraguay, connecting Paraguay and Brazil.
Río Paraguay, at the Puente Bioceánica site on the Paraguay–Brazil border · Photograph: Joel E. Correia
A long roadside mural painting the Bioceanic corridor across Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil, from the Pacific to the Atlantic, with a marker reading “usted está aquí” beside Loma Plata.
Loma Plata, Paraguay · Photograph: Joel E. Correia
Karanda'y palms standing singly and in stands across open grassland, under a high sky of broken cloud.
Bajo Chaco, Paraguay · Photograph: Joel E. Correia
Two dragonflies on a barbwire fence marking the boundary between Sawhoyamaxa lands and a private ranch.
The facade of an old plastered building with an arched doorway, shuttered windows, and a hand-painted ARTESANIA sign.
Concepción, Paraguay · Photograph: Joel E. Correia
A sign reading “Estamos En Aire” — on the air — mounted on a brick wall, with a piece of tooled leatherwork above it.
Radio Pa'i Puku, Paraguay · Photograph: Joel E. Correia
A group standing close together outdoors, one person holding a portable transistor radio.
Somewhere deep in the Chaco. · Photograph: Joel E. Correia
Looking up the trunks of two large trees into the forest canopy.
Ybytyruzú, Paraguay · Photograph: Joel E. Correia
A motorised dugout canoe pulled up on a cobbled river bank, with forested banks and mountains beyond.
Sinangoe, Ecuador · Photograph: Joel E. Correia
Preparing yoco.
Banks of the Aguarico River, Ecuador · Photograph: Joel E. Correia
Aerial view of a frontier: oil palm planted in ranks on one side of a road, freshly cleared ground scattered with felled trunks in the middle, and standing forest on the other side.
A forest frontier: where palm production and the forest meet in Sucumbíos Province, Ecuador.
Sucumbíos Province, Ecuador · Photograph: Joel E. Correia
Three piangüa clams half-buried in wet mangrove mud among fallen leaves.
Bahía Malaga, Colombia · Photograph: Paula Cepeda Mahecha
A large group of people walking along a curving beach towards two moored boats, with forested headland behind and rock stacks offshore.
In the islands, India · Photograph: Neha Kohli
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