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Photographer Graeme Green explains his years-long process of organizing 146 photographers to produce a single photo book.

The mining operations have caused environmental pollution and are adversely affecting the health of Indigenous communities.

MANOKO, Peru — They call themselves “the multicoloured people”, or Siekopai, after the eye-catching traditional body paint and adornments they used to wear in their ancestral home in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. But the feathered crowns and animal tooth necklaces are now stored away for special occasions as the Siekopai live scattered between villages straddling the

Displaced by decades of war as well as commercial and cultural intrusions, the Siekopai people live scattered between villages straddling the Ecuador-Peru border, far from their ancestral territory, which they are fighting to reclaim.

Government’s failure to regulate mining has damaged the environment and human health, community members say.

They call themselves "the multicolored people," or Siekopai, after the eye-catching traditional body paint and adornments they used to wear in their ancestral

MANOKO (PERU) - They call themselves "the multicolored people," or Siekopai, after the eye-catching traditional body paint and adornments they used to wear in their ancestral home in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.

Uprooted: Amazonian Siekopai people battle for return to ancestral land

Uprooted: Amazonian Siekopai people battle for return to ancestral land

The city of Lago Agrio, which lies in the province of Sucumbíos in northern Ecuador’s Amazonian region, is considered the country’s oil capital. It also sits in the midst of several major protected areas, including Yasuní, Cayambe Coca and Sumaco Napo-Galeras national parks, Cuyabeno Fauna Production Reserve and Cofán Bermejo Ecological Reserve. According to a […]