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  • Bugu has a dispute over a woman and challenges his rival to a Donga (stick fight)  Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights and will do it for tourist groups. You have to be careful so you aren't responsible for injury by being a tourist in this area.
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  • Teal and snipe felled by expedition member Vladimir Kruger flesh out a diet of fish, mushrooms, berries and ample rations of vodka for the team.
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  • Teal and snipe felled by expedition member Vladimir Kruger flesh out a diet of fish, mushrooms, berries and ample rations of vodka for the team.
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  • Teal and snipe felled by expedition member Vladimir Kruger flesh out a diet of fish, mushrooms, berries and ample rations of vodka for the team.
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  • A Ghanian chief is protected by guards with gold handled swords at a festival in Ghana.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Suri cover themselves with clay body paint for ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Bronze Age war ax adorned with a horse from the Black Sea region.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights as women wait at their huts.
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  • A leper colony in Ruweng County, which is an island surrounded by enemies. It is the last stand for the rebels in the existing oil field area. They hike in plastic shoes that are taped and tied together and slog thru swamps with the goal of putting put a mortar shell or two into an existing oil operation. Armed with Kalishnikovs, they prepare to fight.
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  • Ruweng County is an island surrounded by enemies. It is the last stand for the rebels in the existing oil field area. They hike in plastic shoes that are taped and tied together and slog thru swamps with the goal of putting put a mortar shell or two into an existing oil operation. Armed with Kalishnikovs, they prepare to fight.
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  • MSF Hospital with patient and rare skin disease. Ruweng County is an island surrounded by enemies. It is the last stand for the rebels in the existing oil field area. They hike in plastic shoes that are taped and tied together and slog thru swamps with the goal of putting put a mortar shell or two into an existing oil operation. Armed with Kalishnikovs, they prepare to fight.
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  • Ruweng County is an island surrounded by enemies. It is the last stand for the rebels in the existing oil field area. They hike in plastic shoes that are taped and tied together and slog thru swamps with the goal of putting put a mortar shell or two into an existing oil operation. Armed with Kalishnikovs, they prepare to fight.
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  • Ruweng County is an island surrounded by enemies. It is the last stand for the rebels in the existing oil field area. They hike in plastic shoes that are taped and tied together and slog thru swamps with the goal of putting put a mortar shell or two into an existing oil operation. Armed with Kalishnikovs, they prepare to fight.
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  • Graveyard in Ruweng County which is an island surrounded by enemies. It is the last stand for the rebels in the existing oil field area. They hike in plastic shoes that are taped and tied together and slog thru swamps with the goal of putting put a mortar shell or two into an existing oil operation. Armed with Kalishnikovs, they prepare to fight.
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  • A hunter, carries a rifle bushmeat followed by his dogs. He provides monkey meat to the town and surrounding community. 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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  • A witch doctor fertility ritual in Uganda.
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  • A Native Alaskan family crosses a stream while hiking with their dog through the woods. They are headed back to their fish camp on Lisianski Peninsula on the west coast of Baranof Island.
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  • A BLM Salt Lake Wild Horse and Burro Specialist checks her air rifle as she approaches a herd of wild horses to dart with PZP immunocontraception.
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  • A BLM Salt Lake Wild Horse and Burro Specialist takes aim with an air riffle to dart mares with PZP.
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  • Kara tribesmen with bows and arrows on the Omo River.
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  • Masaai men celebrate the end of the weeks-long orpul ritual.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy hunter carries a spear and rolled up net for snaring game as the indigenous tribe moves through the Ituri Forest.
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  • An archaeologist tells a U.S. Army sergeant about explosives near Mosul.
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  • An Aborigine aims a shotgun while another prepares a spear.
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  • Teal and snipe felled by expedition member Vladimir Kruger flesh out a diet of fish, mushrooms, berries and ample rations of vodka for the team.
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  • Ruweng County is an island surrounded by enemies. It is the last stand for the rebels in the existing oil field area. They hike in plastic shoes that are taped and tied together and slog thru swamps with the goal of putting put a mortar shell or two into an existing oil operation. Armed with Kalishnikovs, they prepare to fight.
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  • Ruweng County is an island surrounded by enemies. It is the last stand for the rebels in the existing oil field area. They hike in plastic shoes that are taped and tied together and slog thru swamps with the goal of putting put a mortar shell or two into an existing oil operation. Armed with Kalishnikovs, they prepare to fight.
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  • Ruweng County is an island surrounded by enemies. It is the last stand for the rebels in the existing oil field area. They hike in plastic shoes that are taped and tied together and slog thru swamps with the goal of putting put a mortar shell or two into an existing oil operation. Armed with Kalishnikovs, they prepare to fight.
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  • Ruweng County is an island surrounded by enemies. It is the last stand for the rebels in the existing oil field area. They hike in plastic shoes that are taped and tied together and slog thru swamps with the goal of putting put a mortar shell or two into an existing oil operation. Armed with Kalishnikovs, they prepare to fight.
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  • Ruweng County is an island surrounded by enemies. It is the last stand for the rebels in the existing oil field area. They hike in plastic shoes that are taped and tied together and slog thru swamps with the goal of putting put a mortar shell or two into an existing oil operation. Armed with Kalishnikovs, they prepare to fight.
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  • Ruweng County is an island surrounded by enemies. It is the last stand for the rebels in the existing oil field area. They hike in plastic shoes that are taped and tied together and slog thru swamps with the goal of putting put a mortar shell or two into an existing oil operation. Armed with Kalishnikovs, they prepare to fight.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy hunter with spear and rolled up net for snaring game. He is tying leaves onto branches that the semi-nomadic tribe assembles to make shelter.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy hunter with spear and rolled up net for snaring game as he walks through the forest.
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  • Lorene Caudill prepares for their move by taking down family photographs. She and her husband Therman endured eight years of coal dust and foundation-shaking dynamite blasts as Hobet 21, one of the largest surface mines in the state, inched slowly toward them. They put up apples from their last garden and packed their belongings after signing a letter of intent to sell their beloved home to a coal company.<br />
The Caudills, along with other family members, did achieve a small victory by preserving ownership of a nearby ancestral home but only after a long battle—all the way to the West Virginia Supreme Court—with the coal company.  No one lives there now but the extended family gathers on weekends to garden and for dinners at the house, which was completely surrounded by mining. Since then, the house was burned down by arsonists.<br />
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The Caudill house, where they had planned on spending the rest of their lives, is a half-mile down the road from the old homestead. They are some of the last to leave the community. Therman Caudill, a retired schoolteacher said, “It took the coal company 125 years to run the Caudill family out of Mud River, but they finally did it.”
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  • Armed with an air rifle, a BLM Salt Lake Wild Horse and Burro Specialist practices her aim on a target.
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  • A Mursi man with a rifle in the village of Galap.
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  • Curious Nyangatom children check out propped up rifles in a village.
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  • Nyangatom shoot a cow with an arrow and then gather the blood.
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  • Scars on a Nyangatom man reveal that he has killed enemies.
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  • A Ghanian chief protected by guards with gold handled swords.
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  • This fake gun is a sign of authority held by a security guard at a gold mining operation in the Ituri Forest.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy children play with a bow and arrow. The indigenous tribe is of hunting and gathering origin in the Ituri forest.
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  • Security Guards are armed to watch over men digging for gold in a pit. Quarantesept and Cinqante are gold mining towns just outside the Ituri forest reserve in DR Congo
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  • A Mbuti Pygmy spear projecting into a rain forest scene. Spears are used for hunting in a  dense bush and forest habitat.
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  • A military guard sleeping in the Parthian ruins of Hatra.
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  • Children play with unexploded tank shells.
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  • Aborigine hunter carrying a turtle as comrade with spear walks ahead.
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  • Man seated in the Potaro River, hunting with bow and arrow.
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  • Spearfishing in the bay.
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  • Masaai men celebrate the end of the weeks-long orpul ritual.
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  • Villagers in the war-weary Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo scrape for gold in a shaft dug decades ago by a Belgian company. Armed groups controlled Ituri’s rich mines, using gold to buy weapons. Hundreds of people from Congo and Uganda come to work at the mines.
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  • Navy personnel check on a U.S. Navy ballistic missile nuclear submarine capable of being armed with Trident missile nuclear weapons. It surfaces the waters on the North River near St. Mary's. Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay is  located in Camden County, Georgia. It covers 16,000 acres of which 4,000 are protected wetlands that host a rookery.
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  • Navy personnel check on a U.S. Navy ballistic missile nuclear submarine capable of being armed with Trident missile nuclear weapons. It surfaces the waters on the North River near St. Mary's. Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay is  located in Camden County, Georgia. It covers 16,000 acres of which 4,000 are protected wetlands that host a rookery.
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  • Gold mining near the town of Quarantesept in northeastern Congo. Hundreds of people from Congo and Uganda come to work at the mines.<br />
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Villagers in the war-weary Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo scrape for gold in a shaft dug decades ago by a Belgian company. Until recently, armed groups controlled Ituri’s rich mines, using gold to buy weapons.
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  • A young cowboy sheriff with a badge, black hat, red flannel shirt and belt buckle steadies his hand on his weapon ready for action in his living room on the ranch.
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