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| Wichí fishermen wait with their nets - on the banks of the Pilcomayo
River, Argentina. The fishermen use the nets to scoop fish out of the
muddy waters of the river.
©Jonathan Mazower/Survival |
A Wichí
community has appealed for help as its lands are fenced off. Juan
Vega, leader of the village of Pozo Nuevo (New Well) said that soya
farmers who have bought up the village's ancestral land in northern Argentina are now fencing
it in and preventing the Wichí from hunting there.
'They are taking our life from us, ' he said. 'We are left with nothing – our food is being wiped out by the companies who now exploit the
forest.'
