Pictures of the Year International

A Cofan canoe brings food for the Zabalo Guardians (rangers) in the wetlands of the Zabalo River, in the Ecuadorian Amazon on August 26, 2022. The homelands of the Cofan within the Ecuadorian Amazon hold the world's highest biodiversity, but have been under assault by resource extraction interests for seventy years. The Cofan people have resisted fiercely for that entire time, and have managed to maintain their rainforest exceedingly well, despite widespread deforestation and pollution just outside the border of their homelands. Additional Metadata in Headline title: Zabalo Wetlands and Cofan Canoe