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Por Sakmi looks out of a house in his village of Na Nong Bong. One of the complaints by the villages was that a gold mine allegedly poisoned certain rice fields and water sources due to waste run-off that is full of contaminants such as arsenic and cyanide.
Loei - Thailand
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A premature baby receives UV treatment to treat his jaundice at the Mae Pa Health Clinic. Located inside Thailand on the Thai-Myanmar border and part of the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit the clinic offers free pre and post natal health care for remote communities living within Myanmar's Karen State who are unable to access adequate health care. Every morning patients cross the border, a river, in to Thailand until treated, before travelling back across the border.
Mae Sot - Thailand
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Thai workers pull tuna into nets in the hold, where the temperature is minus 22 degrees Celsius. The large ship is docked just outside Bangkok and will spend one week unloading hundres of tonnes of tuna. Each frozen skipjack carcass weighs about 40 kilograms (88 pounds); one ton of skipjack fetches about $1,600 on the wholesale market.
Samut Prakan, Thailand
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A protest against mining projects by villagers in NE Thailand.
Loei - Thailand
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A ranger on patrol in the forest. The forest rangers are employed by the Ministry of Environment but sponsored by Flora and Fauna International who pays them 75% of their salary and provides training and accommodation.
Cardamom Forest - Cambodia
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Ex-Karen soldiers who were injured during clashes with the Burmese army now living in Mae La refugee camp in Thailand.
Mae La - Thailand
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Remote forest valley.
Chiang Mai Province - Thailand
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Large areas of forest looged to make way for plantations.
Cardamom Forest - Cambodia
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Men dig an irrigation channel in the parched earth at the edge of the Little Rann of Kutch.
Gujarat - India
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A collaboration between NGO agents and the Mekong River Navy led to a bust of this pickup containing 130 dogs just as it was about to load them on to a boat. Crammed in to cages, up to 15 dogs at a time, the animals endure horrific conditions whilst being illegally shipped to Vietnam.
Nakhon Panom - Thailand
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In a house Eity Rani, 14, and Shobo Rai, 8, do their homework by the light of an oil lamp. Life is much harder for children who were born in to enclaves. To go to school their parents must pay money under the table and receive a fake address. Then if they are successful the children must do their homework in the dark as no houses inside the enclaves have electricity.
Debiganj - Bangladesh
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A Vietnamese farmer drops fertilizer on her paddy field in Central Vietnam near the cuty of Hue.
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Bun Saluth in the Monks Community Forest that he protected from loggers, poachers and encroachment. This pioneer of the Buddhist environmental movement in Cambodia succeeded in 2002, despite having been threatened with his life, and was able to legally protect 18,261 hectares of evergreen forest now called the Monks Community Forest, which he still safeguards today.
Cambodia
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A surviving baby Siamese crocodile are weighed, measured and inspected by team members of Fauna & Flora International.
Koh Kong Province - Cambodia
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A pharmacist selects HIV medicine in the store room of the Anonymous Clinic at the Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre in Bangkok.
Bangkok - Thailand
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Isatou Ceesay stands at a waste dump in the town of Birkama. Mrs Ceesay founded the Women's Initiative Gambia in 1997. The organisation works with communities across the tiny west African state to address not only the environmental impact of unregulated waste disposal, particularly plastic, but also the empowerment of women in the make dominated society. Over one hundred women are now involved in Isatou's project.
Birkama - The Gambia
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A young boy works inside a brick kiln.
Sindh Province - Pakistan
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A portrait of Mirchand Bheel, age 36, enslaved for 2 years for apparently owing US$1500.
Sindh Province - Pakistan
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Tep Sockha, Cambodian ceramic expert, reconstructs a damaged jar probably broken by falling rocks.
Cardamom Forest - Cambodia
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Bunsri Mamak, 50, takes an X-ray to see the effect of the disease on his lungs at the weekly Melioidosis clinic at Sapphasit Prasong Provincial Hospital. Because of the slow diagnosis of the disease he almost died and had to spend 13 days in ICU at this hospital.
Ubon Ratchathani - Thailand
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A local Village Malaria Worker holds boxes of malaria test kits.
Ratanakiri - Cambodia
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A member of staff at the clinic sits at a computer that new visitors to the clinic first register on in booths before seeing a doctor at the Anonymous Clinic at the Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre in Bangkok.
Bangkok - Thailand
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Mobile Malaria Worker Chuun Thy treats a patient at his work station at the malaria Post at Srae Champa on the Laos/Cambodia border.
Steng Treng - Cambodia
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After a raid by the Cambodian military and park rangers on illegal sassafras oil distilleries, two arrested culprits, one Cambodian and one Vietnamese national, are taken to holding cells in the provincial capital of Pursat for questioning and prosecution.
Pursat - Cambodia
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Dr. Thep Chalermchai, PhD, 46 years old, and a Research Trail Physician who specialises in Internal Medicine talks with a patient. He has worked at the Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre in Bangkok for 13 years.
Bangkok - Thailand
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A major industry that enslaves thousands of people are the brick kilns. The work is hard and dangerous and millions will work in such conditions for years without any pay.
Sindh - Pakistan
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A crocodile farm in the Cambodian province of Kompong Speu. With around 1000 animals occupying only 3 pens, farms like this supply the demand for crocodile skin. Interbreeding hybrids is rampant to increase crocodile sizes.
Kompong Speu - Cambodia
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Jintana Kaewkhaw, a Thai environmental activist, stands on the coastline that was the proposed site for a coal-powered power plant. She successfully lead a protest group against a company that wanted to build a coal-powered electricity plant next to her village. In a landmark case the villagers won but it came at huge personal cost to herself.
Ban Krut - Thailand
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Sugar cane plantations are another industry that has large numbers of bonded-slaves. The people seen here have been rescued or escaped from their landlords and now work in a 'safe' environment receiving their daily wage.
Sindh Province - Pakistan
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Girls wake up after a night sleeping on the floor of their classroom at a small rural boarding school and plait each others hair before class.
Karnataka - India
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Member's of the Njau community women's group cut up a large sheet of plastic that has been donated to them by an airline that flies in and out of Gambia. The women will use this plastic to make bags and jewellery which will then be sold to visitors.
Njau Village - The Gambia
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A portrait of Khaton Bheel, age 15, whose family were en-slaved on a remote farm in eastern Pakistan. After being rescued she has now lived in the 'freed-slave' village since 2005. Pakistan has one of the largest bonded labour rates in the world.
Sindh Province - Pakistan
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Karen refugee teenagers carry the Karen flag and boards asking for peace and an end to the Burmese war during the Revolutionary Day service in Mae La camp.
Mae La - Thailand
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Mrs. Jiraporn Sripol, a former office cleaner at Mae Moh power plant, lies sick with cancer inside her home. It is believed the dust from the power plant led to her sickness.
Lampang - Thailand
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Cambodian Buddhist monks and local people bless large trees by wrapping orange cloth around them and praying. Following uncontrolled forest destruction in the Central Cardamom Protected Forest (CCPF) a eco-warrior monk movement has begun whereby monks and villages try to protect areas of forest by blessing trees to deter would-be loggers.
Koh Kong Province - Cambodia
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A women stands outside her house in the village of Njau in The Gambia.
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Burmese fishermen working all night on a Thai trawler boat off the coast of Phuket. Thailand is the third largest exporter of fish in the world after China and the US. Its fishing fleet is vast, but years of unregulated trawling has causes incredible damage to fish stocks.
Phuket Island - Thailand
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Melioidosis victim Garn Wongsuvan, 82, rests in his home after being diagnosed several months ago. Mr Garn has Leukaemia and usually doesn't go anywhere. But one day when feeling better he went to walk in his rice fields to get some exercise. That is where it is believed he caught the disease from.
Ubon Ratchathani - Thailand
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Rescued during a recent bust on a collection centre that was about to send over 700 dogs to Laos, the dogs are now unloaded at the Government dog shelter at Nakhon Phanom.
Nakhon Panom - Thailand
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In the southern region of Krung, next to the border with Senegal two girls repair and untangle lines of oysters. Naturally the oysters harvested here grow on the roots of mangrove trees but with the changing tides caused by climate change and illegal logging of the trees oyster collecting has become must harder and the rewards much less.
The Gambia
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At a dog slaughter house they are kept in cages before being beaten to death. Then their thoats cut, dunked in boiling water and finally smoked on fires of straw.
Hanoi - Vietnam
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Hong Hoang stands in Ho Chi Minh City. Hong is an environmental activist responsible for coordinating 350.org activities in Southeast Asia ñ Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Singapore, Myanmar, and Thailand.
Ho Chi Minh - Vietnam
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A young boy helps his mother sort out the insects caught that night before getting ready to go to school.
Buriram Province - Thailand
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In Maja Para village in the Dhoholakhagrabari enclave young students and their teacher sit in class of a madrassa. Because enclave children have a difficult time accessing the education system in Bangladesh the locals of this enclave formed an Islamic Foundation funded on donations and built this school to give their children some form of education.
Debiganj - Bangladesh
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It has been impossible for residents of the enclaves to work in any formal office in the towns either because of their lack of legal status or their lack of basic education. As a result most work in the informal economy such this local saw mill.
Debiganj - Bangladesh
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Mae Moh coal burning power plant releasing smoke from its stacks at dawn. The power plant turns off most of its the smoke in the daytime then starts again at night.
Lampang, Thailand.
Public Story
NGO/DEVELOPMENT
Credits:
luke duggleby
Date of Work:
12/31/69 - Ongoing
Updated: 11/13/19
A selection of work shot for NGO's, Corporate Social Responsibility projects and Developmental work for clients such as USAID, Greenpeace, Winrock International, Fortify Rights, World Wildlife Fund, Malaria Consortium, PepsiCo, Climate Heroes, GAIN Alliance and Protection International.