Jabruson / 'Patasse' - a male member of the Ba'Aka ethnic group from the village of Mossapoula, a tribe that have lived around Dzanga Ndoki National park for thousands of years and still depend on forest resourc...

Christophe Courteau / Local people moving on mokoros, traditional boats of the Okavango delta. Botswana.

Jack Dykinga / Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Park with severe storm clouds at sunset amid vast grassland, South Dakota, USA

Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indian house. The houses are made by constructing a frame from cut logs and covering it with palm leaves. Gabaro Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007.

Pete Oxford / A Huaorani man seen through leaves in the forest undergrowth. Gabaro Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007. Model release #GA21.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indian feather crown being made from basket weave, feathers will be attached later with beeswax. Gabaro Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007, Model released

Pete Oxford / Huaorani man being shaved by his daughter. Gabaro Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007. Model release #GA02 and #GA09.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indian and his child outside their forest dwelling. Bameno Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, May 2007. Model release B#6.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indian woman with her pet Cobalt-winged Parakeet (Brotogeris cyanoptera). Gabaro Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007. Model release #GA12.

Eric Dragesco / A yurt of a Kyrgyz shepherd family on the steppe. Naryn National Park, Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, November 2009.

Rob Tilley / Rock engravings of the native american Pueblo people, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico, USA, February 2009

Jouan & Rius / Aboriginal rock art, Anbangbang Gallery, Nourlangie Ranges, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia

Jouan & Rius / Aboriginal rock art showing sailing boat, Nanguluwur Gallery, Nourlangie Ranges, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia

Elio Della Ferrera / Child sucks on Juncus stem to quench thirst. Dinsho village, Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia

Gavin Hellier / The 'Mittens' at sunset Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona, USA

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Cirrus and cumulus clouds over mesa, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona

Tim Fitzharris / Sand dunes and the Mittens, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona

Jim Brandenburg / Desert Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus magister) sunning on rock, Monument Valley National Monument, Arizona

JIM CLARE / Huaorani Indian man hunting with blow pipe and curare Yasuni NP, Ecuador

JIM CLARE / Huaorani Indian boy with Woolly monkey hunted for food Yasuni NP, Ecuador

JIM CLARE / Huaorani indians in rainforest with blowpipes for hunting, Yasuni NP, Ecuador, South America

JIM CLARE / Huaorani Indians preparing curare poison for blow pipes Yasuni NP, Ecuador

Gavin Hellier / Looking up Totem Pole, Jasper National Park, Rocky Mountains, British Columbia, Canada

Gavin Hellier / Looking up Totem Pole, Jasper National Park, Rocky Mountains, British Columbia, Canada

Gavin Hellier / Looking up Totem Pole, Jasper National Park, Rocky Mountains, British Columbia, Canada

Gavin Hellier / Totem Pole, Jasper National Park, Rocky Mountains, British Columbia, Canada

Ann & Steve Toon / Maasai herding cattle in Amboseli National Park, Amboseli-Tsavo ecosystem, Kenya, Africa, October 2012

Jabruson / Gula women drawing water from well; these people are Magreb Arab descendants originally from Sudan. Precious water is drawn from a communal well each day by women and children in the village of Bon ne...

Jabruson / Gula boy drawing water from well; these people are Magreb Arab descendants originally from Sudan. Precious water is drawn from a communal well each day by women and children in the village of Bon near...

Jabruson / Gula women drawing water from well, they are Magreb Arab descendants originally from Sudan. Precious water is drawn from a communal well each day by women and girls in the village of Bon, Zakouma Nat...

Jabruson / 'Boko' tree trunk (Balanites wilsoniana), lots of the tropical rainforest fauna enjoy the fruits and seeds of this species, including elephants and bush pigs, who help seed dispersal. Ba'Aka tribal pe...

Jabruson / 'Boko' tree trunk (Balanites wilsoniana), lots of the tropical rainforest fauna enjoy the fruits and seeds of this species, including elephants and bush pigs, who help seed dispersal. Ba'Aka tribal pe...

Jabruson / Orchids established on the tree trunk of a 'Mokole' tree, with 'Binju' vines in tree, Ba'Aka tribes make concoction from the tree's bark which is consumed for stomach problems. The young roots are ch...

Jabruson / 'Mbanda' tree trunk with bark patterns (Erthrophleum suaveolens) lots of rainforest species eat the seeds and leaves, but local tribes make a cold water infusion from the inner bark and use as a 'proo...

Jabruson / 'Mbanda' tree trunk with bark patterns (Erthrophleum suaveolens) lots of rainforest species eat the seeds and leaves, but local tribes make a cold water infusion from the inner bark and use as a 'proo...

Jabruson / 'Mbanda' tree trunk with bark patterns (Erthrophleum suaveolens) lots of rainforest species eat the seeds and leaves, but local tribes make a cold water infusion from the inner bark and use as a 'proo...

Jabruson / 'Nguluma' tree trunk structure (Duboscia macrocarpa) lots of rainforest species eat teh leaves, fruit and seeds of this species and local people use water from boiled fruit as a cure for colds, Bai Ho...

Jabruson / 'Singa', mother to 'Ifodi', members of the Ba'Aka ethnic group from the village of Mossapoula, a tribe that have lived around Dzanga Ndoki National park for thousands of years and still depend on fore...

Jabruson / 'Nguluma' tree trunk structure (Duboscia macrocarpa) lots of rainforest species eat teh leaves, fruit and seeds of this species and local people use water from boiled fruit as a cure for colds, Bai Ho...

Jabruson / 'Nguluma' tree trunk structure (Duboscia macrocarpa) lots of rainforest species eat teh leaves, fruit and seeds of this species and local people use water from boiled fruit as a cure for colds, Bai Ho...

Jabruson / 'Ngoumou' strangler Fig tree (Ficus sp) wrapped around host tree, which it will eventually kill. The latex (Idjoro) is used for killing birds by local people, hunters roll the latex onto sticks which...

Jabruson / 'Ngoumou' strangler Fig tree (Ficus sp) wrapped around host tree, which it will eventually kill. The latex (Idjoro) is used for killing birds by local people, hunters roll the latex onto sticks which...

Jabruson / 'Ndembe' leaf close-up (Rothmannia welwitschi or macrocarpa) local people crush young leaves in hands and the juice squeezed on to baby and rubbed in for 'malade ti makako' (monkey disease). This affe...

Jabruson / 'Babango' or Ebenaceae (Diospyros bipindensis or iturensis) close up detail of leaf. Lots of animals in the rainforest feed on the leaves and fruit and the local tribes use the wood for axe handles...

Christophe Courteau / Local people moving on mokoros, traditional boats of the Okavango delta. Botswana.

Christophe Courteau / Local people moving on mokoros, traditional boats of the Okavango delta. Botswana.

Christophe Courteau / Local people moving on mokoros, traditional boats of the Okavango delta. Botswana.

Charlie Summers / Maasai gong rock found at Moru Kopies. This rock produces music when pounded on with another rock. Various notes are made depending on where the rocks are hit and worn places can be seen where this oc...

Tom Vezo / Mittens at sunrise, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona

Jack Dykinga / Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Park with glacial remnant boulders amid grassland and on-coming storm clouds, Montana, USA

Roland Seitre / Herdsmen with their cattle, speaking to a park ranger. Ishaqbini Reserve, Kenya, 2009.

Roland Seitre / Man with axe, returning from gathering fire wood. Ishaqbini Reserve, Kenya, 2009.

Roland Seitre / Man and woman in Ishaqbini Reserve, returning from fetching fire wood. Man carrying axe, woman the wood. Kenya, 2009.

Thomas Rabeil / Huts of the Wadi tribe in arid landscape, seen from the air. Near Niamey, Sahelo-Sudanese Biome, W National Park (UNESCO, IUCN & RAMSAR), Niger. Aerial census, May 2011.

Thomas Rabeil / Typical Nigerien village settlement seen from the air. Sahelo-Sudanese Biome, W National Park (UNESCO, IUCN & RAMSAR), Niger. Aerial census, May 2011.

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Portrait of a woman performing a dance. Parc des Volcans NP, Rwanda.

Charlie Summers / Tlingit (Southeast Alaskan Native American) carving on the side of the Clan House. Bight Totem State Park, Ketchikan, Alaska, July 2011.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani man aiming a blowgun up into the canopy to hunt primates. The body of a night monkey (Aotus) is carried on his hip. Gabaro community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007. Model release #...

Pete Oxford / Portrait of a smiling Huaorani man. Bameno Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007. Model release #CO24

Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indian men building a shelter. Bameno Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, May 2007.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indian woman drying her home-made ceramic pot on the fire after washing it out. Gabaro Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007. Model release #GA12.

Pete Oxford / Portrait of a Huaorani Indian woman. She has the typical stretched ear lobes common amoung the Huaorani. They often wear balsa ear plugs. Gabaro Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007. Mo...

Pete Oxford / Huaorani woman and her baby. Gabaro Community. Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007. Model release #GA05

Pete Oxford / Huaorani man with his pet Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao). Gabaro Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007. Model release #GA03.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani man making a feather crown. The crowns are made from a split vine and feathers from various birds such as toucans, parrots and macaws are glued on with heated bees wax. Gabaro Community, Yasu...

Pete Oxford / Huaorani man hunting in the forest with his blowgun. Gabaro community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007. Model release #GA23.

Pete Oxford / Portrait of a Huaorani man with his blowgun in front of traditional forest dwellings. Bameno Community, Yasuni National Park Ecuador, May, 2007. Model release B#1.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indian woman using a clay pot for carrying water from the river. The Huaorani clay pots have a unique shape compared with any of the other indian tribes in Ecuador. Gabaro Community, Yasuni N...

Pete Oxford / Portrait of a Huaorani man. Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, May 2007. Model release B#1.

Pete Oxford / Portrait of a smiling Huaorani woman. Bameno Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007. Model release #CO27

Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indian girl making a basket from palm leaves. These are one time use baskets to carry things home and then are discarded. Gabaro Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007.

Pete Oxford / A Huaorani hunter in the forest with bushmeat (a Woolly Monkey, Trumpeters, Guans) he has taken using his blowgun. Gabaro Community. Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007. Model release #CO25.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani man aiming a blowgun up into the canopy to hunt primates. The body of a night monkey (Aotus) is carried on his hip. Gabaro community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007. Model release #...

Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indian children playing with pet Scarlet Macaws (Ara macao). Gabaro Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani man making a feather crown. The crowns are made from a split vine and feathers from various birds such as toucans, parrots and macaws are glued on with heated bees wax. Gabaro Community, Yasu...

Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indian feather crown being made. Gabaro Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indian house. The houses are made by constructing a frame from cut logs and covering it with palm leaves. Gabaro Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007.

Pete Oxford / Portrait of a Huaorani man. Bameno Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, May 2007.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indian woman with her pet White-bellied Spider Monkey (Ateles belzebuth). They would have hunted the mother for meat and raised the baby as their pet. Gabaro Community, Yasuni National Park,...

Pete Oxford / Portrait of a Huaorani Indian girl. Gabaro Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007. Model release #GA09.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indian feather crown being made. Gabaro Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007.

Pete Oxford / Cofan houses in Cuyabeno Reserve seen from the air. Ecuador, June 2007.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani indians approaching a helicopter in an interesting contrast of culture. Gabaro Community. Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani man making a feather crown. The crowns are made from a split vine and feathers from various birds such as toucans, parrots and macaws are glued on with heated bees wax. Gabaro Community, Yasu...

Pete Oxford / Portrait of a Huaorani man with blowgun over his shoulder. Bameno Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, May 2007. Model release B#1.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indians waiting for light aircraft coming into the Huaorani Indian community. Bameno Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, May 2007. Model release B#10.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani man carrying Chonta palm nuts which are boiled then eaten. Bameno Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, May 2007. Model release B#2.

Pete Oxford / Cofan houses and meandering river in Cuyabeno Reserve seen from the air. Ecuador, June 2007.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani man hunting with his blowgun. Gabaro Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007. Model release #GA07.

Pete Oxford / Cofan houses in Cuyabeno Reserve seen from the air. Ecuador, June 2007.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indian man with penis held in some kind of waistband. Bameno Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, May 2007.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani woman carrying her fishing net. These nets are made from the fibres of the Chambira palm. Bameno Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, May 2007. Model release B#15.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indian woman making a clay pot. The Huaorani clay pots have a unique shape compared with any of the other indian tribes in Ecuador. Gabaro Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007....

Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indian woman carrying fire wood. Gabaro Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007. Model release #GA20.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani man walking with his blowgun in front of traditional forest dwellings. Bameno Community, Yasuni National Park Ecuador, May, 2007. Model release B#1.

Pete Oxford / Huaorani man walking with his blowgun in front of traditional forest dwellings. Bameno Community, Yasuni National Park Ecuador, May, 2007. Model release B#1.