Three years on from the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, this feature celebrates the country’s progress but warns of continued discontent amongst Sri Lanka’s many marginalised communities.

An arms race has begun in Papua New Guinea as candidates prepare for the 2012 political elections. This feature explores the relationship between traditional costume, machine guns, ancestral belief, copious amounts of marijuana and some of the most palpably optimistic …

West Papua is one of the last great frontier wildernesses. Over 250 distinct indigenous communities live amongst spectacular rainforests, mountains and coral ecosystems. But all is not well on the world’s second largest island – which now serves as a …

Destructive fishing techniques are common practice amongst the coastal populations of the Coral Triangle. The favoured methods are homemade fertiliser bombs and potassium cyanide, which have not only decimated reefs in the largest and most diverse marine bio-region in the …

You don’t need a degree to be a conservationist. A USaid funded collaboration between WWF, Conservation International and The Nature Conservancy are working to empower local communities to look after their own environments. This series of images looks at two …

The Achuar territory, which straddles the Ecuador-Peru border, is currently home to one of the most diverse and best protected eco-systems in the world. For the most part a ‘non-contact’ ethnic group right up until the arrival of catholic missionaries …

Two hundred years ago the advance of the Russian empire into Kazakhstan sent many Kazakhs across the border into western Mongolia where they settled in the region of Bayan Ulgii. As the Russians continued to occupy Kazakhstan, traditional Kazakh culture …