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  • Two Tai Dam ethnic minority women take a break from collecting 'Nor Khom', bitter bamboo shoots in the forest, Ban Na Kham, Oudomxay province, Lao PDR. They are collecting them both for their own consumption and for selling at the small roadside market in the village of Ban Na Mor.
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  • Marie Clar Labtik (50) sits in the sea collecting small shells for making necklaces and other products for tourists, Pooc, Bantayan Island, The Philippines.
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  • Luzriminda T. Abello (42) collecting sea snails whilst walking through the mangrove forest at low-tide, Obo-ob, Bantayan Island, The Philippines. Fishing communities in Bantayan reported severe damage to mangrove forests after typhon Haiyan but the government has yet to conduct an assessment of the impact.  Mangroves forests are critical in ensuring the sustainability of fish production. They serve as spawning grounds and nurseries for fish and are a habitat for a wide array of organisms. The salt-hardy trees also protect coastal areas from wave action and can prevent some of the inland damage associated with storm surges. Oxfam is working on various projects to support mangrove protection in Obo-ob.
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  • Marie Clar Labtik (50) sits in the sea collecting small shells for making necklaces and other products for tourists, Pooc, Bantayan Island, The Philippines.
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  • Collecting dried seahorses for exporting to China for medicine, Tamiao, Bantayan Island, The Philippines.
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  • A nesting box for the Common Goldeneye, a medium-sized diving duck, Finnish Lapland. Like other waterfowl, the goldeneye has had an important role in providing nutrition for people of northern Finland. The birds naturally nest in a tree cavity but will readily use nestboxes and this used to be the traditional way of collecting eggs of waterfowl throughout Lapland. The custom was based on the fact that when you remove only some of the eggs from the nest, the female would lay more eggs to replace the lost ones. The eggs were traditionally cooked in hot ash and eaten hardboiled. Collecting Common Goldeneye eggs is no longer officially permitted.
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  • A nesting box for the Common Goldeneye, a medium-sized diving duck, on the banks of Lake Inari, Finnish Lapland. Like other waterfowl, the goldeneye has had an important role in providing nutrition for people of northern Finland. The birds naturally nest in a tree cavity but will readily use nestboxes and this used to be the traditional way of collecting eggs of waterfowl throughout Lapland. The custom was based on the fact that when you remove only some of the eggs from the nest, the female would lay more eggs to replace the lost ones. The eggs were traditionally cooked in hot ash and eaten hardboiled. Collecting Common Goldeneye eggs is no longer officially permitted.
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  • A nesting box for the Common Goldeneye, a medium-sized diving duck in Ivalo, Finnish Lapland. Like other waterfowl, the goldeneye has had an important role in providing nutrition for people of northern Finland. The birds naturally nest in a tree cavity but will readily use nestboxes and this used to be the traditional way of collecting eggs of waterfowl throughout Lapland. The custom was based on the fact that when you remove only some of the eggs from the nest, the female would lay more eggs to replace the lost ones. The eggs were traditionally cooked in hot ash and eaten hardboiled. Collecting Common Goldeneye eggs is no longer officially permitted.
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  • A nesting box for the Common Goldeneye, a medium-sized diving duck, on the banks of Lake Inari, Finnish Lapland. Like other waterfowl, the goldeneye has had an important role in providing nutrition for people of northern Finland. The birds naturally nest in a tree cavity but will readily use nestboxes and this used to be the traditional way of collecting eggs of waterfowl throughout Lapland. The custom was based on the fact that when you remove only some of the eggs from the nest, the female would lay more eggs to replace the lost ones. The eggs were traditionally cooked in hot ash and eaten hardboiled. Collecting Common Goldeneye eggs is no longer officially permitted.
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  • A nesting box for the Common Goldeneye, a medium-sized diving duck, on the banks of Lake Inari, Finnish Lapland. Like other waterfowl, the goldeneye has had an important role in providing nutrition for people of northern Finland. The birds naturally nest in a tree cavity but will readily use nestboxes and this used to be the traditional way of collecting eggs of waterfowl throughout Lapland. The custom was based on the fact that when you remove only some of the eggs from the nest, the female would lay more eggs to replace the lost ones. The eggs were traditionally cooked in hot ash and eaten hardboiled. Collecting Common Goldeneye eggs is no longer officially permitted.
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  • A nesting box for the Common Goldeneye, a medium-sized diving duck, on the banks of Lake Inari, Finnish Lapland. Like other waterfowl, the goldeneye has had an important role in providing nutrition for people of northern Finland. The birds naturally nest in a tree cavity but will readily use nestboxes and this used to be the traditional way of collecting eggs of waterfowl throughout Lapland. The custom was based on the fact that when you remove only some of the eggs from the nest, the female would lay more eggs to replace the lost ones. The eggs were traditionally cooked in hot ash and eaten hardboiled. Collecting Common Goldeneye eggs is no longer officially permitted.
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  • A nesting box for the Common Goldeneye, a medium-sized diving duck, on the banks of Lake Inari, Finnish Lapland. Like other waterfowl, the goldeneye has had an important role in providing nutrition for people of northern Finland. The birds naturally nest in a tree cavity but will readily use nestboxes and this used to be the traditional way of collecting eggs of waterfowl throughout Lapland. The custom was based on the fact that when you remove only some of the eggs from the nest, the female would lay more eggs to replace the lost ones. The eggs were traditionally cooked in hot ash and eaten hardboiled. Collecting Common Goldeneye eggs is no longer officially permitted.
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  • A nesting box for the Common Goldeneye, a medium-sized diving duck, on the banks of Lake Inari, Finnish Lapland. Like other waterfowl, the goldeneye has had an important role in providing nutrition for people of northern Finland. The birds naturally nest in a tree cavity but will readily use nestboxes and this used to be the traditional way of collecting eggs of waterfowl throughout Lapland. The custom was based on the fact that when you remove only some of the eggs from the nest, the female would lay more eggs to replace the lost ones. The eggs were traditionally cooked in hot ash and eaten hardboiled. Collecting Common Goldeneye eggs is no longer officially permitted.
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  • A nesting box for the Common Goldeneye, a medium-sized diving duck, on the banks of Lake Inari, Finnish Lapland. Like other waterfowl, the goldeneye has had an important role in providing nutrition for people of northern Finland. The birds naturally nest in a tree cavity but will readily use nestboxes and this used to be the traditional way of collecting eggs of waterfowl throughout Lapland. The custom was based on the fact that when you remove only some of the eggs from the nest, the female would lay more eggs to replace the lost ones. The eggs were traditionally cooked in hot ash and eaten hardboiled. Collecting Common Goldeneye eggs is no longer officially permitted.
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  • A nesting box for the Common Goldeneye, a medium-sized diving duck, on the banks of Lake Inari, Finnish Lapland. Like other waterfowl, the goldeneye has had an important role in providing nutrition for people of northern Finland. The birds naturally nest in a tree cavity but will readily use nestboxes and this used to be the traditional way of collecting eggs of waterfowl throughout Lapland. The custom was based on the fact that when you remove only some of the eggs from the nest, the female would lay more eggs to replace the lost ones. The eggs were traditionally cooked in hot ash and eaten hardboiled. Collecting Common Goldeneye eggs is no longer officially permitted.
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  • A nesting box for the Common Goldeneye, a medium-sized diving duck, on the banks of Lake Inari, Finnish Lapland. Like other waterfowl, the goldeneye has had an important role in providing nutrition for people of northern Finland. The birds naturally nest in a tree cavity but will readily use nestboxes and this used to be the traditional way of collecting eggs of waterfowl throughout Lapland. The custom was based on the fact that when you remove only some of the eggs from the nest, the female would lay more eggs to replace the lost ones. The eggs were traditionally cooked in hot ash and eaten hardboiled. Collecting Common Goldeneye eggs is no longer officially permitted.
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  • A nesting box for the Common Goldeneye, a medium-sized diving duck, on the banks of Lake Inari, Finnish Lapland. Like other waterfowl, the goldeneye has had an important role in providing nutrition for people of northern Finland. The birds naturally nest in a tree cavity but will readily use nestboxes and this used to be the traditional way of collecting eggs of waterfowl throughout Lapland. The custom was based on the fact that when you remove only some of the eggs from the nest, the female would lay more eggs to replace the lost ones. The eggs were traditionally cooked in hot ash and eaten hardboiled. Collecting Common Goldeneye eggs is no longer officially permitted.
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  • A nesting box for the Common Goldeneye, a medium-sized diving duck, on the banks of Lake Inari, Finnish Lapland. Like other waterfowl, the goldeneye has had an important role in providing nutrition for people of northern Finland. The birds naturally nest in a tree cavity but will readily use nestboxes and this used to be the traditional way of collecting eggs of waterfowl throughout Lapland. The custom was based on the fact that when you remove only some of the eggs from the nest, the female would lay more eggs to replace the lost ones. The eggs were traditionally cooked in hot ash and eaten hardboiled. Collecting Common Goldeneye eggs is no longer officially permitted.
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  • Woodland worker Angela Cole (from Yorkshire Hurdles) collecting materials from a woodland in the Howardian Hills AONB. The Howardian Hills AONB is a landscape with well-wooded rolling countryside, patchwork of arable and pasture fields, scenic villages and historic country houses with classic parkland landscapes.
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  • The owner of a bed and breakfast collecting fresh hens eggs in the village of Field Broughton in Cumbria on 19 October 2018
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  • Muslim girls out collecting for charity Islamic Relief in London, UK.
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  • Portrait of Chinese workers in a truck collecting pumpkins from the Khmu ethnic minority farmers in Ban Nam Khor, Oudomxay, Lao PDR. The scarcity of agricultural land in Southern Yunnan province is promoting Chinese farmers and small scale entrepreneurs to cross the international border between China and Lao PDR in order to invest in cash crops. The villagers are supplied with seeds, plastic and fertilisers to grow various crops which are then exported back to China on a vast scale.
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  • Biffa bin lorry collecting refuse on the streets of Barbican in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Woman collecting rubbish on the shoreline at low tide along the River Thames near Monument on 14th January 2022 in London, United Kingdom. The River Thames, known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London. At 215 miles, it is the longest river entirely in England and the second-longest in the UK, and is the lifeblood for economy, travel and tourism and transportation in the capital.
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  • Two rubbish trucks collecting general waste drive side by side along The Strand in central London, United Kingdom.
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  • Alaba International Market. Kids showing what can be found on the neaby dump, old printer circuit boards, old TV casings and lots of CRT glass.<br />
New and old - and a lot of non-working electronic goods such as TVs and computers come in to the market via Lagos harbour from the US, Western Europe and China. This picture is part of an undercover investigation by Greenpeace and Sky News.  A TV-set originally delivered to a municipality-run collecting point in UK for discarded electronic products was tracked and monitored by Greenpeace using a combination of GPS, GSM, and an onboard radiofrequency transmitter placed inside the TV-set.  The TV arrived in Lagos in container no 4629416 and was found in Alaba International Market and bought back by Greenpeace activist. The TV was subsequently brought back to England and used as proof of illegal export of electronic waste. A number of individual are currently on trial in London in connection with illegal exports(Nov 2011)
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  • Wearing the traditional kimono, a middle-aged geisha lady from the 'Minamoto Kitchoan' store collects money from westerners in London on behalf of the Japanese Red Cross Tsunami appeal. While standing in the street on Picadilly, in the heart of Westminster, an English gentleman stoops to organise the contents of his briefcase. Originally, the Geisha were traditional, female Japanese entertainers whose skills include performing various Japanese arts such as classical music and dance. Such a scene is unusual on a London street but the tsunami disaster encouraged many ex-patriate Japanese to collect money from Europeans for their countrymen.
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  • Tibetan buddhist monks collect drinking water from a well inside the monastic complex of Atsog Monastery, deep inside rural Xinghai County, Qinghai province, China
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  • The faded flowers from the shrine dedicated to those killed in the London Bridge terrorist attack are collected from the pavement and respectfully disposed of, on 26th June 2017, in London, England.
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  • The faded flowers from the shrine dedicated to those killed in the London Bridge terrorist attack are collected from the pavement and respectfully disposed of, on 26th June 2017, in London, England.
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  • A Brokpa woman washes clothes and collects water for household use at the standpipe in the remote and roadless village of Merak, Eastern Bhutan. The Brokpa, the semi-nomads of the villages of Merak and Sakteng are said to have migrated to Bhutan a few centuries ago from the Tshona region of Southern Tibet. Thriving on rearing yaks and sheep, the Brokpas have maintained many of their unique traditions and customs. In summer they move to the pastures with their yaks and sheep and in winter they return to live in their houses, normally built of stones with small ventilation to protect from the piercing cold weather.
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  • In the remote Akha Nuquie ethnic minority village of Ban Chakhampa, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR, women's first task of the day is to collect water using a gourd scoop and carry it back to the village in traditional bamboo water carriers. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals.
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  • Women collect and cultivate seaweed in the shallow water at low tide at Matemwe on 12th December 2008 in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Each woman has a little submerged field of seaweed which is held down in rows. Once collected they dry the seaweed which is then sold ofr export, usually to be used as as a food thickener or stabiliser. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to its name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for its incredible sealife on its many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
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  • Women collect and cultivate seaweed in the shallow water at low tide at Matemwe on 12th December 2008 in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Each woman has a little submerged field of seaweed which is held down in rows. Once collected they dry the seaweed which is then sold ofr export, usually to be used as as a food thickener or stabiliser. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to its name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for its incredible sealife on its many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
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  • In the remote Akha Nuquie ethnic minority village of Ban Peryenxangmai, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR, women's first task of the day is to collect water using a gourd scoop and carry it back to the village in traditional bamboo water carriers. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals.
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  • In the remote Akha Nuquie ethnic minority village of Ban Chakhampa, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR, women's first task of the day is to collect water and carry it back to the village in traditional bamboo water carriers. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals.
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  • Women collect and cultivate seaweed in the shallow water at low tide at Matemwe beach on 13th December 2008 in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Each woman has a little submerged field of seaweed which is held down in rows. Once collected they dry the seaweed which is then sold ofr export, usually to be used as as a food thickener or stabiliser. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to its name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for its incredible sealife on its many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
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  • Women collect and cultivate seaweed in the shallow water at low tide at Matemwe beach on 13th December 2008 in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Each woman has a little submerged field of seaweed which is held down in rows. Once collected they dry the seaweed which is then sold ofr export, usually to be used as as a food thickener or stabiliser. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to its name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for its incredible sealife on its many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
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  • Women collect and cultivate seaweed in the shallow water at low tide at Matemwe on 12th December 2008 in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Each woman has a little submerged field of seaweed which is held down in rows. Once collected they dry the seaweed which is then sold ofr export, usually to be used as as a food thickener or stabiliser. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to its name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for its incredible sealife on its many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
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  • Women collect and cultivate seaweed in the shallow water at low tide at Matemwe on 12th December 2008 in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Each woman has a little submerged field of seaweed which is held down in rows. Once collected they dry the seaweed which is then sold ofr export, usually to be used as as a food thickener or stabiliser. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to its name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for its incredible sealife on its many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
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  • Women collect and cultivate seaweed in the shallow water at low tide at Matemwe on 12th December 2008 in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Each woman has a little submerged field of seaweed which is held down in rows. Once collected they dry the seaweed which is then sold ofr export, usually to be used as as a food thickener or stabiliser. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to its name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for its incredible sealife on its many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
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  • Women collect and cultivate seaweed in the shallow water at low tide at Matemwe on 12th December 2008 in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Each woman has a little submerged field of seaweed which is held down in rows. Once collected they dry the seaweed which is then sold ofr export, usually to be used as as a food thickener or stabiliser. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to its name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for its incredible sealife on its many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
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  • Women collect and cultivate seaweed in the shallow water at low tide at Matemwe on 12th December 2008 in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Each woman has a little submerged field of seaweed which is held down in rows. Once collected they dry the seaweed which is then sold ofr export, usually to be used as as a food thickener or stabiliser. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to its name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for its incredible sealife on its many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
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  • Women collect and cultivate seaweed in the shallow water at low tide at Matemwe on 12th December 2008 in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Each woman has a little submerged field of seaweed which is held down in rows. Once collected they dry the seaweed which is then sold ofr export, usually to be used as as a food thickener or stabiliser. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to its name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for its incredible sealife on its many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
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  • Women collect and cultivate seaweed in the shallow water at low tide at Matemwe on 12th December 2008 in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Each woman has a little submerged field of seaweed which is held down in rows. Once collected they dry the seaweed which is then sold ofr export, usually to be used as as a food thickener or stabiliser. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to its name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for its incredible sealife on its many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
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  • In the remote and roadless Akha Nuquie ethnic minority village of Ban Chakhampa, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR, young girls first task of the day is to collect water using a gourd scoop and carry it back to the village in traditional bamboo water carriers. Although there is a small basic school in Ban Chakhampa, it is still rare for girls in such remote villages to go to school because they are required to help their families with jobs at home.
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  • In the remote and roadless Akha Nuquie ethnic minority village of Ban Chakhampa, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR, young girls first task of the day is collect water using a gourd scoop and carry it back to the village in traditional bamboo water carriers. Although there is a small basic school in Ban Chakhampa, it is still rare for girls in such remote villages to go to school because they are required to help their families with jobs at home.
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  • In the remote and roadless Akha Nuquie ethnic minority village of Ban Chakhampa, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR, young girls first task of the day is collect water using a plastic scoop and carry it back to the village in traditional bamboo water carriers. Although there is a small basic school in Ban Chakhampa, it is still rare for girls in such remote villages to go to school because they are required to help their families with jobs at home.
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  • A family collect sloe berries from bush in Kent countryside. Reaching up into the prickly twigs and with strong sun shining into the image, creating a refracted pattern on a man's face in the foreground, we see four members of the family picking the berries in the autumn. They are high on an escarpment, above the Kent countryside whose fields can be seen below. The mother laughs, the daughter reaches high and the boy wears a cheque-patterned hoodie - the favoured clothes of some teenagers. It is a happy family picture as they enjoy the great outdoors after a walk through nearby country.
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  • Chang Lin goes out to collect sunflower crop from near by fields, Chang Qu village, Shaanxi, China.
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  • In the remote and roadless Akha Nuquie ethnic minority village of Ban Chakhampa, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR, young girls first task of the day is collect water using a plastic scoop and carry it back to the village in traditional bamboo water carriers. Although there is a small basic school in Ban Chakhampa, it is still rare for girls in such remote villages to go to school because they are required to help their families with jobs at home.
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  • In the remote and roadless Akha Nuquie ethnic minority village of Ban Chakhampa, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR, young girls first task of the day is collect water using a gourd scoop and carry it back to the village in traditional bamboo water carriers. Although there is a small basic school in Ban Chakhampa, it is still rare for girls in such remote villages to go to school because they are required to help their families with jobs at home.
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  • A Laoseng ethnic minority woman returns to the old village to collect firewood after her village of Ban Watai has been temporarily relocated away from the Nam Ou river, during the construction of the Nam Ou Cascade Hydropower Project Dam 6, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR. The Nam Ou river connects small riverside villages and provides the rural population with food for fishing. It is a place where children play and families bathe, where men fish and women wash their clothes. But this river and others like it, that are the lifeline of rural communities and local economies are being blocked, diverted and decimated by dams. The Lao government hopes to transform the country into “the battery of Southeast Asia” by exporting the power to Thailand and Vietnam.
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  • Together with a Mo Suo friend Mu Ze Latso goes down to Lugu Lake to collect  a type of algae / plant which she then feeds to her livestock: hens, ducks,  pigs, cow, etc. northwest Yunnan province.<br />
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Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
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  • A woman collects riverweed from under the rocks in the Nam Pa river (a tributary of the Nam Ou) in Pak Nam Noi, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR. The riverweed will later be washed, dried and eaten or sold at the market in Pak Nam Noi. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • Cultivated seaweed crop at Matemwe beach on 13th December 2008 in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Each woman has a little submerged 'field' of seaweed which is held down in rows. Once collected they dry the seaweed which is then sold ofr export, usually to be used as as a food thickener or stabiliser. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to it's name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for it's incredible sealife on it's many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
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  • Cultivated seaweed crop at Matemwe beach on 13th December 2008 in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Each woman has a little submerged 'field' of seaweed which is held down in rows. Once collected they dry the seaweed which is then sold ofr export, usually to be used as as a food thickener or stabiliser. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to it's name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for it's incredible sealife on it's many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
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  • A Romanian peasant farmer carries a basket of grass he has collected to feed his animals with, Desesti, Maramures, Romania.
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  • Cultivated seaweed crop at Matemwe beach on 13th December 2008 in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Each woman has a little submerged field of seaweed which is held down in rows. Once collected they dry the seaweed which is then sold ofr export, usually to be used as as a food thickener or stabiliser. Zanzibar is a small island just off the coast of the Tanzanian mainland in the Indian Ocean. In part due to its name, Zanzibar is a travel destination of mystical reputation, known for its incredible sealife on its many reefs, the powder white coral sand beaches and the traditional cultivation of spices.
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  • A dried seahorse collected for exporting to China for medicine, Tamiao, Bantayan Island, The Philippines.
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  • James, one of the elders of the traditional Batwa pygmies from the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda. James climbs a tree to collect honey. They were indigenous forest nomads before they were evicted from the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest when it was made a World Heritage site to protect the mountain gorillas.  The Batwa Development Program now supports them.
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  • Young school girl, Jasbir Kaur, collects yellow flowers of Mustard plants in Chita Kalaan village, Punjab, India.
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  • An elderly subsistence farmer carries a basket full of nettles for making soup and a sickle in the churchyard in Botiza, Maramures, Romania
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  • Chen Yi He, Chinese Herbalist, outside the town of Meng Yang goes for an early morning  search for roots, bark, leaves, seeds, etc.  which he will then use for his medical practice, Xiao Meng Yang town, China
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  • The Spanish delicacy of "Percebes" a highly priced and very expensive gooseneck barnacle that grows only on rocks with heavy surf. There are only a few regions that they can be cultivated, including the Rias Altas region of Galicia.
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  • Fishermen  cling to the rock face as the try pry clear with knives or poles the Spanish delicacy of "Percebes" a highly priced and very expensive gooseneck barnacle that grows only on rocks with heavy surf. There are only a few regions that they can be cultivated, including the Rias Altas region of Galicia. It is a very dangerous occupation as many fishermen are often killed as they get slammed into the rock due to the very heavy tidle waves.
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  • A greeting driver attempts to identify one of his passengers from a group of non-English-speaking young people who have just arrived off a flight from Beijing. In the hectic international arrivals concourse of Heathrow's Terminal 5, the man hold up a name board to attract the attention of those Chinese nationals who are new students at a Bournemouth language college called Education First (EF), based on England's south coast. With the help of a chaperone, the man points to a young girl in the hope she might be on his list. Neither speak each other's mother tongue and the language barrier is difficult to overcome. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport424-13-07-2009_1.jpg
  • An Akha subsistence farmer scrapes resin from an illegally grown opium poppy head into a metal container in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.
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  • A married Akha Nuquie woman carries a bamboo basket filled with traditional bamboo water carriers full of water back to her village of Ban Chakhampa, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.
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  • A selection of vegetables in an Akha Pouli ethnic minority home in Ban Picherkao, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Besides rice, Lao farmers also grow a variety of other food crops to supplement their diet. In addition to vegetables grown in the fields alongside the rice, subsistence farmers often have a garden nearby the house where they grow other edible greens such as beans, squashes, onion, garlic, ginger and aromatic herbs.
    A0018988cc_1.jpg
  • A Khmu ethnic minority woman harvests tea leaves, Ban Nam Thuan, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Rural communities are being impelled to move from swidden to sedentary agriculture and many subsistence farmers are turning to the cultivation of cash crops such as tea.
    A0016894cc_1.jpg
  • A Khmu ethnic minority woman harvests tea leaves, Ban Nam Thuan, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Rural communities are being impelled to move from swidden to sedentary agriculture and many subsistence farmers are turning to the cultivation of cash crops such as tea.
    A0016890cc_1.jpg
  • A portrait of a young Khmu ethnic minority girl working on her family farm in Ban Nam Khor, Oudomxay province, Lao PDR. The scarcity of agricultural land in Southern Yunnan province is promoting Chinese farmers and small scale entrepreneurs to cross the international border between China and Lao PDR in order to invest in cash crops. The villagers are supplied with seeds, plastic and fertilisers to grow various crops which are then exported back to China on a vast scale.
    A0016777cc_1.jpg
  • An Akha subsistence farmer scores opium poppies in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. After the petals fall from the opium poppy, the heads are incised with a 4 bladed tool; the tool is used to score the skin lightly from top to bottom. During the day, the sap oozes out of the cuts and hangs in tears on the poppy head. The next day the sap is then scraped into a metal container. As recently as 1998, Lao PDR was the third largest illicit opium poppy producer in the world.  From 1998 to 2005, opium poppy cultivation in Lao PDR was reduced by 93 per cent.  In more remote areas where cash crops are not viable, surveys from UNODC have shown that between 2008 and 2011 the area under opium poppy cultivation has doubled and continues to rise.
    A0016484cc_1.jpg
  • An Akha subsistence farmer scores opium poppies in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  After the petals fall from the opium poppy, the heads are incised with a 4 bladed tool; the tool is used to score the skin lightly from top to bottom. During the day, the sap oozes out of the cuts and hangs in tears on the poppy head. The next day the sap is then scraped into a metal container. As recently as 1998, Lao PDR was the third largest illicit opium poppy producer in the world.  From 1998 to 2005, opium poppy cultivation in Lao PDR was reduced by 93 per cent.  In more remote areas where cash crops are not viable, surveys from UNODC have shown that between 2008 and 2011 the area under opium poppy cultivation has doubled and continues to rise.
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  • A workman clears away old shop fittings and then some discarded sexist ad posters that lie on a London street after being removed from a refurbished shop construction site. Yellow steps ladders, the red exterior of the shop make for prime colours alongside the torn and water soaked posters, the faces and nude bodies of the women showing before being swept away.
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  • From a low angle, we see a greeting driver from Dover Heritage Taxis who awaits his passenger to arrive off a flight from Turkey. In the hectic international arrivals concourse of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5, the man holds up a name board to attract the attention of the man who is a member of a cruise ship's crew that is due to sail from the sea port of Dover. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport105-13-07-2009_1 1.jpg
  • A conservation volunteer gathers rosehips from the hedgerows around the Castle Howard Estate in North Yorkshire, UK. The seeds will be planted and grown on at the Estate's arboretum and eventually planted out to make more trees and hedges in the Howardian Hills. Castle Howard Estate is in the Howardian Hills AONB, a landscape with well-wooded rolling countryside, patchwork of arable and pasture fields, scenic villages and historic country houses with classic parkland landscapes.
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  • A Khmu ethnic minority woman harvests tea leaves, Ban Nam Thuan, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Rural communities are being impelled to move from swidden to sedentary agriculture and many subsistence farmers are turning to the cultivation of cash crops such as tea.
    A0016910cc_1.jpg
  • A Khmu ethnic minority woman harvests tea leaves, Ban Nam Thuan, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Rural communities are being impelled to move from swidden to sedentary agriculture and many subsistence farmers are turning to the cultivation of cash crops such as tea.
    A0016906cc_1.jpg
  • A Khmu ethnic minority woman harvests tea leaves, Ban Nam Thuan, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Rural communities are being impelled to move from swidden to sedentary agriculture and many subsistence farmers are turning to the cultivation of cash crops such as tea.
    A0016872cc_1.jpg
  • A Khmu ethnic minority woman harvests tea leaves, Ban Nam Thuan, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Rural communities are being impelled to move from swidden to sedentary agriculture and many subsistence farmers are turning to the cultivation of cash crops such as tea.
    A0016869cc_1.jpg
  • Portrait of a Tai Yang ethnic minority subsistence farmer harvesting lemongrass from her garden, Ban Long Nai, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Besides rice, Lao farmers also grow a variety of other food crops to supplement their diet. In addition to vegetables grown in the fields alongside the rice, subsistence farmers often have a garden nearby the house where they grow other edible greens such as beans, squashes, onion, garlic, ginger and aromatic herbs.
    A0016860cc_1.jpg
  • A young Khmu ethnic minority girl works on her family farm picking pumpkins in Ban Nam Khor, Oudomxay province, Lao PDR. The scarcity of agricultural land in Southern Yunnan province is promoting Chinese farmers and small scale entrepreneurs to cross the international border between China and Lao PDR in order to invest in cash crops. The villagers are supplied with seeds, plastic and fertilisers to grow various crops which are then exported back to China on a vast scale.
    A0016772cc_1.jpg
  • An Akha subsistence farmer scores opium poppies in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. After the petals fall from the opium poppy, the heads are incised with a 4 bladed tool; the tool is used to score the skin lightly from top to bottom. During the day, the sap oozes out of the cuts and hangs in tears on the poppy head. The next day the sap is then scraped into a metal container. As recently as 1998, Lao PDR was the third largest illicit opium poppy producer in the world.  From 1998 to 2005, opium poppy cultivation in Lao PDR was reduced by 93 per cent.  In more remote areas where cash crops are not viable, surveys from UNODC have shown that between 2008 and 2011 the area under opium poppy cultivation has doubled and continues to rise.
    A0016463cc_1.jpg
  • An Akha subsistence farmer scores opium poppies in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. After the petals fall from the opium poppy, the heads are incised with a 4 bladed tool; the tool is used to score the skin lightly from top to bottom. During the day, the sap oozes out of the cuts and hangs in tears on the poppy head. The next day the sap is then scraped into a metal container. As recently as 1998, Lao PDR was the third largest illicit opium poppy producer in the world.  From 1998 to 2005, opium poppy cultivation in Lao PDR was reduced by 93 per cent.  In more remote areas where cash crops are not viable, surveys from UNODC have shown that between 2008 and 2011 the area under opium poppy cultivation has doubled and continues to rise.
    A0016460cc_1.jpg
  • An Akha subsistence farmer scores opium poppies in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. After the petals fall from the opium poppy, the heads are incised with a 4 bladed tool; the tool is used to score the skin lightly from top to bottom. During the day, the sap oozes out of the cuts and hangs in tears on the poppy head. The next day the sap is then scraped into a metal container. As recently as 1998, Lao PDR was the third largest illicit opium poppy producer in the world.  From 1998 to 2005, opium poppy cultivation in Lao PDR was reduced by 93 per cent.  In more remote areas where cash crops are not viable, surveys from UNODC have shown that between 2008 and 2011 the area under opium poppy cultivation has doubled and continues to rise.
    A0016447cc_1.jpg
  • Greeting drivers await their passengers to arrive off a flight from Beijing. In the hectic international arrivals concourse of Heathrow's Terminal 5, the men hold up name boards to attract the attention of those Chinese nationals who are new students at a Bournemouth language college called Education First (EF), based on England's south coast. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport403-13-07-2009_1.jpg
  • Greeting drivers await their passengers to arrive off a flight from Beijing. In the hectic international arrivals concourse of Heathrow's Terminal 5, the men hold up name boards to attract the attention of those Chinese nationals who are new students at a Bournemouth language college called Education First (EF), based on England's south coast. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport403-13-07-2009_1 1.jpg
  • From a low angle, we see a greeting driver from Dover Heritage Taxis who awaits his passenger to arrive off a flight from Turkey. In the hectic international arrivals concourse of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5, the man holds up a name board to attract the attention of the man who is a member of a cruise ship's crew that is due to sail from the sea port of Dover. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport105-13-07-2009_1.jpg
  • As a visitor eats his takeaway lunch, a council street cleaning contractor adds more waste to his growing binful of rubbish in Trafalgar Square, on 15th June 2019, in London, England.
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  • On the day that the EU in Brussels agreed in principle to extend Brexit until 31st January 2020 aka Flextension and not 31st October 2019, two Chelsea Pensioners sell Remembrance poppies, next to Brexit Party flags and banners during a Brexit protest outside parliament, on 28th October 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    brexit_ptotest-26-28-10-2019.jpg
  • On the day that the EU in Brussels agreed in principle to extend Brexit until 31st January 2020 aka Flextension and not 31st October 2019, a Chelsea Pensioner sells Remembrance poppies, next to Brexit Party flags and banners during a Brexit protest outside parliament, on 28th October 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    brexit_ptotest-28-28-10-2019.jpg
  • On the day that the EU in Brussels agreed in principle to extend Brexit until 31st January 2020 aka Flextension and not 31st October 2019, a Chelsea Pensioner selling Remembrance poppies, walks past Brexit Party flags and banners during a Brexit protest outside parliament, on 28th October 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    brexit_ptotest-24-28-10-2019.jpg
  • In the mangroves that surround the village of Palma Real impoverished resident subsist on musseling for Crabs, Ecuador.
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  • Asian girl picking up red autumn leaves fall on a man made surface. London, UK.
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  • An Akha Nuquie woman carries firewood home along the new road to the remote village of Ban Chakhampa, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Whilst not affected directly by the Nam Ou Cascade Hydropower Dam 6 construction project, the village of Ban Chakhampa has benefitted from the new road passing by on the way to Ban Watai, a village which has recently been relocated due to the dam construction.
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  • A Prai (Lao Mai) ethnic minority woman gathers broom grass (kok kham) which will later be transformed into brooms to be sold at her roadside stall, Sayaboury province, Lao PDR. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals.
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  • A Prai (Lao Mai) ethnic minority woman gathers broom grass (kok kham) which will later be transformed into brooms to be sold at her roadside stall, Sayaboury province, Lao PDR. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals.
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  • The morning after Saturday night crowds of young peoples nightlife beach parties, their litter and rubbish from the night before stretches across the coastal paths and shingle, local volunteers pick up and bags up piles of litter along the sea wall, on 19th July 2020, in Whitstable, Kent, England.  The volunteers and a council cleaner come every morning to clean-up the mess left by others which, they say, has got worse during the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown and now, the slow easing of health guidelines.
    whitstable_litter20-19-07-2020.jpg
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