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  • Villagers carrying firewood outside Millenium Village - an experimental village run by the UN.  The UN tried to find a cluster of villages that lacked food security, and then tried to solve some of the problems in a controlled environment.  This village has been going for one year, and they just gathered benchmark data for the first six months.
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  • Millenium Village, an experimental village run by the United Nations.
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  • Villagers gather to see volunteer nurses and clinic workers.
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  • Villagers carrying firewood.
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  • Twilight falls on the Ladin village of LaVal in the snow-covered Dolomites. Perched on the lush green, mountain hillside is 15th century Gothic style Christian Church of Santa Barbara.
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  • Svaneti, a small bustling village sits below sharp, snow-covered mountains.
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  • Villagers gathering and carrying firewood.
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  • A satellite dish in the fishing village of Pulau Misa has living quarters for live reef fish divers as well as structures out on the water that hold nets for live reef fish. <br />
The reefs in many areas are laid bare to supply Chinese restaurants with live fish. The global trade in live reef fish may top a billion dollars a year, with many species captured by cyanide or traps. Use of dynamite to kill reef fish increases the toll taken by the live trade.
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  • Markets line the streets of the Senegal fishing village of Saint Louis on the edge of the Pacific Ocean.
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  • Hoonah Cannery in Tlinigit village on Chichagof Island.
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  • Fishing village of Petersburg with Glaciers of Stikine Ice Fields.
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  • A farmer splits logs for firewood to heat the farm through winter in an Alpine rural village of LaVal in the Dolomite mountains in Italy.
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  • Scenic view of the picturesque Ladin village of LaVa in the Italian Dolomite mountains. Perched on the lush green, hillside is 15th century Gothic style Christian Church of Santa Barbara. <br />
The Alps arose as a result of the collision of the African and European tectonic plates, in which the western part of the Tethys Ocean, that was formerly in between the continents, disappeared millions of years ago.
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  • A gold mining village near Cinquante.
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  • A gold mining village near Cinquante.
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  • Aerial of a village on Kenya's Omo Delta near Ileret.
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  • A village on Lake Turkana.
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  • An El Molo village on Lake Turkana.
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  • Fish drying in an El Molo village on Lake Turkana.
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  • El Molo locals walk to their village on Lake Turkana.
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  • A Daasanach village.
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  • A Daasanach village.
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  • A village in the Lake Turkana region of Kenya.
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  • A fishing village in the Lake Turkana region of Kenya.
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  • Komote, an El Molo village in Kenya's Lake Turkana region.
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  • Children in the village of Chelete.
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  • A dust cloud envelops the Kara village of Dus.
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  • Twilight over Lumale Camp in the Kara village of Dus.
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  • A dust cloud envelops the Kara village of Dus.
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  • Kara children playing games in their village.
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  • A boy and his pet baboon wander the Suri village of Tulgit.
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  • Young girls are dressed in their finest for a wedding celebration in a remote village. Their families are some of the industrious people who came to Kamchatka for “northern money” had to scramble when default happened, and they survived with no state money.  Highly valued Russian caviar was their only resource between 1995 and 2005.
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  • Residents of a remote village  in Kamchatka rush to meet the supply helicopter. Original inhabitants Khailino are indigenous. Dogs run wild in the street and locals on board a motorcycle race to try to get a woman on board to be taken where she can get medical attention. <br />
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In Northern Kamchatka, indigenous Koryak people and Russians came for “Northern money” when the Soviet Union wanted to tame the area. Income paid was eight times more than a similar job in Moscow, so some people figured out how to get all the necessary permits to work. When default happened, no one in the remote outposts received salaries.  People made a living from salmon caviar and created fishing brigades with distribution systems. Living in a very small community of 700 residents, and the temperatures drop to –40° in the winter, everyone works hard to merely survive and are kind to each other.
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  • Laundry hanging to dry in a village in Kalimantan.
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  • A village with a satellite dish in Kalimantan.
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  • Village leaders inspect Ikoma Bush Camp.
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  • Students compete for attention at a newly built village school.
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  • Twilight falls on the snow-covered village of Castelrotto which is also known as Kastelruth in German. The tower of a cathedral lights up the northern Italian resort town that serves as a winter destination in the Dolomites. Large distinctive mountains loom over the communities attracting tourists in all seasons.
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  • A village lays at the foot of a mountain range.
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  • A boy and his pet baboon wander the Suri village of Tulgit. He has painted his pet in hopes of getting a few tourist coins.
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  • A bride and groom deliver food and drink to the villagers that are homebound after their wedding.
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  • The fishing village of Saint Louis on the edge of the Pacific Ocean. A maze of lines hooked up to a tall pole on the beach provide electricity to homes.
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  • Aerial of a village on Kenya's Omo Delta near Ileret.
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  • Domed houses in Komote, an El Molo village just outside Loiyangalani.
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  • Boys in the Suri village of Tulgit.
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  • Village leaders inspect Ikoma Bush Camp.
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  • A water fight at China Folk Culture Villages.
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  • After the official ceremony at the Khailino town hall, the newly married couple is followed by the wedding party to visit everyone in town who could not leave their houses to attend the three-day party.  <br />
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Following Russian traditions, they drink a shot of vodka with each shut-in and share a little food, then go to the next home to visit other Kamchatka neighbors who are too elderly or infirm to participate in the event.
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  • Koryak residents of Khailino, Kamchatka, Russia, rush to get their mother to the poacher's helicopter so she can get medical treatment in Petropavlovsk. The poaching situation in these areas allows some individuals to pay for helicopter time and on return trips the helicopter is often empty. If you know poachers it's possible, in this case, to get medical care.
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  • Twilight falls on the quiet, Ladin village of LaVal in the Dolomites where the church stands high on the hillside. The picturesque community in the Alps depends on agriculture and crafts.
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  • Taillights blur as a bus squeezes through building on the narrow streets of the Swiss village of Santa Maria. The charm of the mountain communities draws tourists, but the streets were built long before gas-powered transportation.
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  • As twilight falls on a darkened street scene in Mendrisio, candle-lit banners from the 17th and 18th century glow depicting Christ's passion. Villagers rush home to prepare for a somber processional that flows through the streets celebrating Holy Week.
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  • Lined up containers wait on a woman working a pump as kids watch.
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  • Two Sudanese children, an adult and a donkey in a desolate landscape.
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  • Shark fins and tails dry in the sun.<br />
Sharks are down to 10% of historical populations and a large reason for that is an appetite for shark fin soup in China and other parts of Asia.
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  • Hunters provide monkey meat to the town and surrounding community.<br />
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Estimates are that between 30 and 85% of daily protein intake of Africans comes from bushmeat. <br />
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Population growth and the commercialization of the trade in bushmeat creates hunting pressure upon wild animal populations. Wildlife numbers are rapidly declining, and there are concerns that animal diseases may be transmitted to humans.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • The religious community of Georgian Dukhobors relocated near Tambov.
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  • A child carries a torch with the flame lighting the way during a Good Friday procession at the beginning of the Christians' Holy Week. Parishioners wear clothing of Jews and Romans as they walk through the darkened streets in a Christian celebration that dates back the 17th century.
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  • An evening view of the snow-covered resort town of Sestriere, Italy. Olympic alpine skiing competition was held on the slopes in the Alps during the 2006 competition and now draws tourists to the quiet mountain region.
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  • Women attend a Nyicheriesee ceremony, a pairing off ceremony in Ileret.
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  • A street scene in Prestea.
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  • Migrant goldmine workers in Kalimantan.
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  • View of the town of Sinop.
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  • Wooden walkway in Gaultois.
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  • Pelicans reach for fish in a bucket on a beach where artisanal fishermen work and live in Senegal.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Young Kara boys wait for a wedding party to start.
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  • The religious community of Georgian Dukhobors relocated near Tambov.
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  • Lit banners in Mendrisio telling the story of Jesus.
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  • A coal mine above Mc Roberts causes flooding and water problems for the residents that live in the shadow of this valley fill from a mountaintop removal mine.
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  • Ileret dome houses.
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  • Aerial view of El Molo Island in Lake Turkana. This island is where the last four El Molo live.
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  • Aerials of Lake Turkana.
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  • Aerials of Lake Turkana.
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  • A fisherman with a bent back from consuming the polluted waters of Lake Turkana.
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  • Hairstyles are created after the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Satellite dish in Kenya's Lake Turkana region.
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  • Satellite dish in Kenya's Lake Turkana region.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Crushed minerals are dusted over a Hamar girl   s hair.
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  • A Kara woman debates whether to add a bra to her costume.
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  • A young Kara boy surveys the crowd at a wedding party.
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  • Tourists in cheetah-print dresses take photographs of locals in Jinka.
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  • Evening bright lights illuminate the town of Martigny, winter home of  St. Bernard dogs of Alps fame. Nestled between the snow-capped mountains in the Alps, it is a junction of roads that join Switzerland with Italy and France.
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  • Small icebergs, mere shards of what threatens Hibernia in the open sea, cruise right next to the shore.
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  • Arriving in Motoka on a ferry ride across Lake Volta.
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  • Aerial photo shows rows of identical houses in Huaxi Village (Farmer’s Village). It is emblematic of the beginning of the massive urbanization of China and of the largest human migration in history from the rural areas of China into the cities. In 2008, these  workers villas in wealthy Huaxi village included some of the industries in the background. Villagers didn't migrate because they changed their model rural farm into a modern industrial city. <br />
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This co-op has been a model farm for 45 years. They were capitalists before it was legal in China. They started factories, but worked in them with no windows in secret. When government officials came to inspect, they sent all the workers out to the fields and disguised the factories. Huaxi became the first and most successful capitalist exploitation of the collective. This model farm became so successful they started selling shares in the 60's. They sold the shares "underground" The residents now buy shares or work for shares to purchase these homes.  When shares were first offered, they went for 2000RMB, now they go for 30,000 RMB. In 2008, 30,000 officials visited this place to see how it runs effectively. There are not many model farms left in China, and none with this wealth. The model farm runs about 80 factories and In 2008, Huaxi was held up by the government as the most successful transition from farmer to the socialist/capitalist world. But more recently, in the face of economic pressures, Huaxi Village has gone bankrupt.
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  • Huaxi Village (Farmers Village), a model farm for the last 45 years, is in the foreground of this photograph and the businesses owned by the “farmers” are in the background. These “model farmers” were capitalists before it was allowed in China. They started factories, but worked in them secretly (no windows). When government officials came around, all the workers ran out into the fields and pretended to be peasants. They became the first and most successful capitalist exploitation of the collective. There have been 30,000 official government visits to this place to see how it is run every year. There are not many model farms left in China, and none with this wealth. This model farm runs about 80 factories, including garment factories and steel mills. As China changed, this village has been in and out of bankruptcy.
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  • This is a meeting of the “farmer” capitalist millionaires in Huaxi Village (Farmers Village), a model farm for the last 45 years. Even though they are the collective ideal of the capitalist model, they still dress in Mao-ish style outfits and make decisions for the 80 businesses in a socialist forum.<br />
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These “model farmers” were capitalists before it was allowed in China. They started factories, but worked in them secretly (no windows). When government officials came around, all the workers ran out into the fields and pretended to be peasants. They became the first and most successful capitalist exploitation of the collective. Huaxi Village eventually went bankrupt.
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  • Houses and boats in harbor of fishing village on Baranof Island.
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  • The village of Perce in the shadow of Perce Rock.
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  • A worker in a steel mill in Huaxi village.
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  • A steel mill in Huaxi village.
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