Peru
These photos were taken on assignment with Forest Peoples Programme in 2019, as I worked alongside indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon to document their struggles against corporate land grabs and the establishment of conservation areas, which leave people unable to live, hunt or gather in their traditional forest territories.
The Wampis, Kichwa and Shipibo communities were participating in a pioneering programme to map their territories using a specially designed GPS system, which would strengthen their legal case for their rights to their communal lands, allow them to monitor threats, and guard important traditional knowledge that is at risk of being lost as their are shut out of their ancestral forests.
The Wampis, Kichwa and Shipibo communities were participating in a pioneering programme to map their territories using a specially designed GPS system, which would strengthen their legal case for their rights to their communal lands, allow them to monitor threats, and guard important traditional knowledge that is at risk of being lost as their are shut out of their ancestral forests.