Ingo Arndt / Villagers collecting eggs from Olive ridley sea turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) during the first two days of the arribada (mass nesting event). This is the only place in the world where it is legal to...

Christophe Courteau,Christophe Courteau / Villagers walking along a road during a heavy rain shower, Virunga National Park, North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, August 2010.

Tim Laman / A child taking a bath in a large bucket. Waifoy Village, Waigeo Island, West Papua, Indonesia, April 2007

Tim Laman / View of beach, and man fishing from a dugout canoe, at Yenbeser Village. Alfred Russel Wallace based himself in this village for several months in the 1850's. Raja Ampat Islands, Indonesia. May 2007

David Woodfall / Building a sea wall to combat climate change and protect fishing village from flooding, Sundarbans, Bangladesh, June 2008

David Woodfall / Villagers living in former river bed now dry due to siltation, complex effects of climate change, Ganges delta, Bangladesh, November 2008

Oriol Alamany / Kibber villager with a domestic Yak (Bos grunniens), Spiti valley, Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve, Himalaya mountains, Himachal Pradesh, India, February 2017.

Ashley Cooper / A woman subsistence farmer cooking on a traditional clay oven, using rice stalks as biofuel in the Sunderbans, Ganges Delta, India. All parts of the rice crop are used, and the villager's life is ver...

Shane P. White / Amazon River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) being fed by villager, Rio Negro, Amazon, Brazil

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Local villager attending the release of European bison / Wisent (Bison bonasus) in the Tarcu mountains nature reserve, Natura 2000 area, Southern Carpathians, Romania. May 2014.

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Armenis priest and villagers at the release of European bison / Wisent (Bison bonasus) in the Tarcu mountains nature reserve. The priest held a sermon for the bison and splashed them with Holy water....

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Local villagers attending the release of European bison / Wisent (Bison bonasus) in the Tarcu mountains nature reserve, Natura 2000 area, Southern Carpathians, Romania. May 2014.