16 Incredible Pictures That Show How Tribals Are Protecting Their Culture And Forests

Indigenous tribes are developing models of sustainable management, replanting devastated forests and even guarding against loggers.

In 2020, the Amazon forest experienced some of the most severe forest fires ever, the lives of indigenous tribes are in danger, because land is the basis for them to survive.??

Ricardo hopes that his work will draw people's attention to the difficulties faced by indigenous tribes, even though these difficulties are not caused by them.?

The Brazilian photographer first met people of indigenous tribes in 1997 while taking pictures in the village of Yanomami, located on the border area between Brazil and Venezuela.?

The latest series of photos featuring the amazon rainforest guardian, featured in Ricardo's 'Brazilian Indian Project'. Its aim was to highlight the importance of protecting Brazil's indigenous tribes as well as showing off the harmony between nature and man.?

Ricardo started photographing the Amazon forest and made contact with the native tribe. Since then, he has been trying to find ways to highlight the diversity and richness of the indigenous culture, as well as emphasize the importance of indigenous peoples in protecting the forests.?

According to Stuckert, there are generations born and never seen by a native. He thinks that photography has the capacity to convey a culture to thousands of people.?

Documentary photographers are about eliminating stigma and propagating a fading culture. He tries to make the indigenous people as comfortable as possible while taking pictures.

Through the 'Brazilian Indian Project', Ricardo hopes to demonstrate the cultural diversity that exists in this South American country - a country with more than 210 million people and nearly 1 million ethnic groups. In the picture?is an 89-year-old patriarch hunting fish with a bow and arrow on a shallow beach.

“I've always been fascinated by the local culture,” says the photographer.?"The importance of documentary photojournalism is to remove the stigma and promote a lost culture."