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By Geraint Hill & Stitching Pictures 22 January 2021
For one of Venezuela’s remote indigenous communities, sustainability trumps material gain. Amid the nation s ongoing economic and political crisis, the Pemón village of Santa Teresita de Kavanayén (commonly called Kavanayén) has rejected profitable offers to sell its land to mining companies. Instead, villagers are preserving their centuries-old agricultural practices of planting crops on small plots of cleared forest.
The Pemón are an indigenous group residing in parts of Brazil, Guyana and south-eastern Venezuela – including the Gran Sabana, a lush area of vast green plains dotted with spectacular table mountains, where Kavanayén is located. The Gran Sabana covers more than 31,000sq km and is home to immense savannahs and endemic wildlife such as the long-tailed Hispaniolan lizard-cuckoo and the pint-sized rufous-breasted sabrewing hummingbird. It also encompasses the Canaima National Park, where the