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  • Firefighters of Alcoy and Elda try to extinguish a fire in Torre de Macanes near Alicante, on August 13, 2012. One person was killed and three injured Sunday as firefighters battled wildfires across Spain, authorities said, the latest victims in a sweltering summer of forest blazes. AFP PHOTO/Pedro ARMESTRE
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  • A firefighter of Alcoy and Elda try to extinguish a fire in Torre de Macanes near Alicante, on August 13, 2012. One person was killed and three injured Sunday as firefighters battled wildfires across Spain, authorities said, the latest victims in a sweltering summer of forest blazes. AFP PHOTO/Pedro ARMESTRE
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  • Firefighters of Alcoy and Elda try to extinguish a fire in Torre de Macanes near Alicante, on August 13, 2012. One person was killed and three injured Sunday as firefighters battled wildfires across Spain, authorities said, the latest victims in a sweltering summer of forest blazes. AFP PHOTO/Pedro ARMESTRE
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  • A Madrid Volunteer firefighter works in El cubillo de Uceda during a forest fire near Guadalajara, on August 11, 2012. AFP PHOTO/Pedro ARMESTRE
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  • Colombia, Leticia, 2010. Vida nueva. <br />
Plaza de mercado en Leticia. Hasta aquí llegan las más diversas y exóticas cosechas de la selva amazónica: arazá, yuca, plátano, tomate, ajíes de distintas variedades, cilantro, cebolla. La tierra, el agua y la mujer indígena son muestra de la enorme fertilidad característica de la región. Esta adolescente trabaja junto a su bebé, aún en brazos, en la plaza que sirve para distribuir desde alimentos hasta teléfonos celulares, artículos de hogar, maquinaria, ropa.<br />
New life. <br />
Leticia Market square. Here the diverse and exotic harvests arrive from the Amazonian forest: arazá, yucca, banana, tomato, peppers of different varieties, coriander, and onion. The land, water and the indigenous woman are sample of the enormous fertility which characterizes the region. This teenager works together with her baby, still in arms, in the square that trades in a range of goods; foods to cellular telephones, household articles, machinery, and clothes.
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  • Colombia, Macedonia, 2010. Un pozo con fin. <br />
Cuando llega la época seca del año y no llueve, los pobladores improvisan pozos artesanales para recoger agua pura. En medio de tal abundancia de vida, en esta selva se corre el riesgo de no proporcionar el agua suficiente para el consumo humano. Las consecuencias del uso del hombre sobre los recursos naturales y el cambio climático se tornan más drásticas en este paisaje virgen. <br />
. A well with aim.<br />
When the dry season arrives and it does not rain, the villagers improvise by building artisan wells to gather pure water. In the middle of such abundant life, this forest runs the risk of not providing sufficient drinking water for its humans’ consumption. The consequences of man’s use of the natural resources and its effect on climatic changes become more dramatic in this virgin landscape.
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  • Colombia, Amazonas, Macedonia, 2010. Macedonia. <br />
Macedonia es un diminuto poblado indígena clavado en la selva amazónica colombiana. Como el agua también fluye la vida de los niños que crecen a orillas del río más caudaloso y largo del mundo. Un misionero fundó este pueblo hace poco menos de cincuenta años; hoy día todos sus habitantes viven la doctrina evangelista que deformó sus tradicionales prácticas culturales. <br />
Macedonia is a tiny indigenous town in the Colombian amazonian forest. As the water flows it also shapes the lives of the children growing up along the shore of the most mighty and longest river in the world.  A missionary founded this town around fifty years ago; today all inhabitants live the evangelist doctrine that replaced their traditional cultural practices.
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  • Colombia, Mocagua, 2010. La orilla. <br />
La actividad de los pueblos amazónicos se desarrolla, en su mayoría, en torno al agua. Las mujeres más jóvenes acuden a lavar la ropa;  los más pequeños esperan refrescándose en el río.  Con los brazos y a pulmón libre, fácilmente se pueden recorrer kilómetros bajo el agua; pero en la tupida selva el desplazamiento se torna complicado. Para llegar desde Mocagua hasta Leticia, la capital, es necesario navegar el Amazonas un par de horas.  <br />
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The shore. <br />
The activity of the amazonian towns is mainly focused around the water. The youngest women go there to wash the clothes; the children cool off and refresh in the river.  With your arms and holding your breath for a while you can travel a few kilometers on this plentiful river; but in the dense forest the displacement becomes complicated. In order to travel from Mocagua to Leticia, the capital, is necessary to sail for a couple of hours along the Amazon.
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  • A man rests in wildfire in Tabuyo del Monte near Leon on August 20, 2012. Numerous wildfires have broken out across Spain in the sweltering heat in recent weeks, an extra headache for authorities struggling to get the country out of its financial crisis and recession. © Pedro ARMESTRE
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  • Members of the Brif, reinforcement brigade wildfires, and Emergency Military Unit (UME) work to put out a wildfire in Tabuyo del Monte near Leon on August 20, 2012. Numerous wildfires have broken out across Spain in the sweltering heat in recent weeks, an extra headache for authorities struggling to get the country out of its financial crisis and recession. © Pedro ARMESTRE
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  • A butcher cuts up meat to sell at the weekly market in San Pedro Sumino in August of 2009.   Meet is consumed only a few days a week in most Kichwa families because of its cost.
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  • A covered canoe heads down the Napo River near San Pedro Sumino in August of 2009.
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  • An older woman and a child start a fire near San Pedro Sumino in August of 2009.    Her children have left, she lives with her granddaughter. At night they both go to a neighbors house where they get fed.
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  • A girl combes her grandmother's hair near San Pedro Sumino in August of 2009.
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  • A boy holds a doll in San Pedro Sumino in August of 2009.   San Pedro is a Quichua (indigenous) community located on the Napo River.   Many of the houses located along the river can only be reached by canoe and the residents live in isolation.   The people hunt, grow crops, such as corn and yuca, and fish in the Napo river.
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  • People play soccer in San Pedro Sumino in August of 2009.   San Pedro is a Quichua (indigenous) community located on the Napo River.   Many of the houses located along the river can only be reached by canoe and the residents live in isolation.   The people hunt, grow crops, such as corn and yuca, and fish in the Napo river.
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  • Teenagers play pool during the weekly market in the center of San Pedro Sumino in August of 2009.   This part of town livens up once a week and then dies during the rest of it.  The bars are only open on market days.
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  • A boy and his niece hang out in a room near San Pedro Sumino in August of 2009.  Usually older kids take care of the younger ones. Many of the houses have family and extended family living in it.
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  • The Kichwas of the Napo River<br />
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The Kichwas of San Pedro Sumino are very shy and reserved people. They are also one of the original tribes of the Ecuadorean jungle. This indigenous community lives fairly isolated from big cities.  A lot of their houses can only be reached by canoe making it hard for most to reach the roads and sell their products in the markets.  They survive in tight communities where helping the other is not an option but a philosophy of life. They receive basic or no assistance from the outside, having to work very hard together to make ends meet.  Still, they live without creating a great impact on their environment.  In what they call mingas, the Kichwas harvest, make canoes, fish, hunt, cook and play together. They don’t like anyone in their community to be left behind.  The Kichwas prosper together. With modernity, some things have changed, but the basic principles of living in a community have remained the same.  Kids wear jeans and listen to reggeton but they still help the family with all the daily chores.  They understand medicinal plants, can stand in a one-person canoe as they row up river and they deeply respect their elders. They know legends of rivers and boas and hold a tight relationship with nature, their home. <br />
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A man heads down the Napo River on a fishing trip near San Pedro Sumino in August of 2009.   San Pedro is a Kichwa (indigenous) community located on the Napo River.   Many of the houses located along the river can only be reached by canoe and the residents live in isolation.   The people hunt, grow crops, such as corn and yuca, and fish in the Napo river.
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  • A girl feeds a baby chica de yuca, a drink made of fermented yuca in San Pedro Sumino in August of 2009.  The “chicha,” a beverage made out of yuca and offered at all times of the day.  To not accept it when offered is an insult to Kichwas.  When you first enter their house, chicha is like a strong handshake.  It  is a covenant, allowing  strangers to build a trusting friendship.
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  • An old woman and a girl return to their house near San Pedro Sumino in August of 2009.   San Pedro is a Quichua (indigenous) community located on the Napo River.   Many of the houses located along the river can only be reached by canoe and the residents live in isolation.   The people hunt, grow crops, such as corn and yuca, and fish in the Napo river.
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  • An old woman stands by the Napo River near San Pedro Sumino in August of 2009.   Her children have left, she lives with her granddaughter. At night they both go to a neighbors house where they get fed.
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  • Colombia, Macedonia, 2010. Baile de disfraces. <br />
Los trajes tradicionales son hoy el atuendo de trabajo de las comunidades tikunas. Este grupo de mujeres espera la llegada de los turistas para vender la demostración de unos de sus bailes típicos alrededor de la fertilidad. Las mayores, aprendieron los cantos y movimientos como herencia de una cultura milenaria; las niñas lo reciben como mecanismo de inserción en la actividad económica de la región donde hoy prima el turismo. En las tareas del hogar, los nativos incluyen la fabricación de artesanías como medio de sustento.<br />
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Dance of disguises. <br />
Traditional costumes are today the work attire of the Tikunas.  This group of women await the arrival of tourists, to sell tickets for their performance of one of their typical dances about the fertility. The eldest learned the songs and movements as part of their inheritance from a millennium of culture; girls now are taught it as a way to be included in the economic activity of the region where today tourism prevails.  Household tasks now include the manufacture of handicrafts for sale as a means of livelihood.
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  • Firefighter members of the Andalucian emergency plan against wildfires (INFOCA) brigade walk near the site of a wildfire in Ojen near Malaga, on August 31, 2012. More than 250 firefighters on the ground, backed by eight planes and nine helicopters, battled the blaze after hot, dry winds sent it racing through tinder-dry forest in southern Spain. AFP PHOTO / Pedro ARMESTRE
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  • A firefighter member of the Andalucian emergency plan against wildfires (INFOCA) brigade works to put out a wildfire in Ojen near Malaga, on August 31, 2012. More than 250 firefighters on the ground, backed by eight planes and nine helicopters, battled the blaze after hot, dry winds sent it racing through tinder-dry forest in southern Spain. AFP PHOTO / Pedro ARMESTRE
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  • Rosa Sandoval clears the forest to farm yuca in an area near the village of Tsiquireni, Ene River. Peru. April 2012. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • BRAZIL, SANTAREM. NOVEMBER 2008. Insects. <br />
- BRIEF: A rising demand for soybean on the global market leads the Brazilian government, together with multinational agribusiness companies, to expand the agricultural frontier into the Amazonia threatening the forest and communities. Large-scale soybean monocultures have arrived to the city of Santarem, in the heart of the Amazon. Besides the environmental consequences, thousands of rural families have had to migrate to the city where poverty, violence, prostitution and marginality are growing day by day.
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  • Colombia, Macedonia, 2010. Agua final. <br />
Flotando en el río Amazonas se asoma el rostro de un hombre. Es niño, indígena tikuna y evangelista, y recibirá del cielo que lo abriga lo que su nuevo Dios promete; lo mismo que el Dios de su mitología indígena anuncia. Como Yuché, a este pequeño lo espera la vida eterna; al desaparecer su cuerpo, la selva amazónica guardará su espíritu y la vida, entonces, continuará su curso hasta que el comportamiento humano y las leyes naturales lo permitan. <br />
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Final water. <br />
Floating in the Amazon river the face of a man is shown.  He is young, an indigenous Tikuna and evangelist, and he will receive from heaven what his new God promises; just like the saying of the God of indigenous mythology.  As Yuché, it is eternal life; when his body disappears, the Amazonian forest will keep his spirit alive, his body will continue on this journey whilst human behaviour and natural laws allow it.
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  • Colombia, Leticia, 2010. Esvástica. <br />
Con la llegada de la tarde, baja la agitación en el puerto de Leticia. Un trabajador del comercio descansa mientras las pequeñas embarcaciones provenientes del puerto principal descargan las últimas mercancías de la jornada. A un costado, el día cobra vida. El movimiento se traslada de la orilla del río a las calles húmedas de la zona urbana, cuando se comercializan los productos venideros del interior de la selva. Unas 40 mil personas habitan esta ciudad.<br />
With the arrival of the afternoon, there is less activity in the port of Leticia. A trade worker rests while the small boats from the main port unload the latest merchandise of the day. On one side the day comes to life. The movement from the shores of the river to the humid streets of the urban zone, where the products of made from the forest are traded. About 40,000 people inhabit this city.
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  • Aerial general view of the fire in Coín, near Malaga, on september 01, 2012. AFP PHOTO/Pedro ARMESTRE
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  • A firefighter walks past trees on fire during a wildfire in Tabuyo del Monte near Leon, Spain, on Tuesday August 21, 2012. Some 500 soldiers have been deployed to help battle a wildfire authorities believe was started intentionally and which has burned 80 sq. kilometers (30. sq. miles) in northern Spain. (c)Pedro Armestre
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  • INFOCA Members of wildfires of Iznalloz and Puerto Lobo of Granada work to put out a wildfire in Bedar, in Almeria, on August 26, 2012.  AFP PHOTO / Pedro ARMESTRE
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  • Un ratón quemado se esconde despues de resultar herido enun incendio forestal. Durante una sequía de dos meses, aproximadamente 2565 incendios forestales, (muchos presuntamente provocados) quemaron 3796 hectareas de bosques, algunas casas y muchos animales silvestres en las laderas boscosas que rodean Quito, la capital del Ecaudor.   Ningún humano murió, pero tomaran décadas antes de que las áreas afectadas se recuperen.
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  • Salvador, 27, an Ashaninka villager of Tsiquireni village, enters a hiding place to hunt birds using his bow and arrows, in the forests near Tsiquireni, Ene River, Peru. April 2012. Fishing, hunting, farming and gathering are the only ways of providing food to the village. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • Members of a village go to collect bananas and sweet potatos to a farm in the forests. All the food they bring to the village is later shared among every villager. Tsiquireni, Ene River, Peru. April 2012. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • Ashaninka children watch the birds a hunter from their village just brought home after hunting them with a bow and arrow, in Tsiquireni, a village in the shore of Ene River just below Pakitzapango. The ashaninka live with no money, they farm and gather ther food from the forests and rivers that would be flooded by Pakitzapango dam if it is built displacing them.  Peruvian amazon, april 2012. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • Un bombero mira un incendio forestal crecer fuera de su alcance. Durante una sequía de dos meses, aproximadamente 2565 incendios forestales, (muchos presuntamente provocados) quemaron 3796 hectareas de bosques, algunas casas y muchos animales silvestres en las laderas boscosas que rodean Quito, la capital del Ecaudor.   Ningún humano murió, pero tomaran décadas antes de que las áreas afectadas se recuperen.
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