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Keywords
Day
Forests (campaign title)
Grass
Indigenous People
KWCI (GPI)
One person
Outdoors
Tribal dresses
Tropical rainforests
Women
Forests Logging Background (Papua New Guinea : 2003)
Kuwene Nakeye, Weliyo Village, Kapolasi Clan, Kosuo Tribe. The airstrip built at Welyio impinges upon a site sacred to Kuwene Nakeye and other women in the village. This place was used for ceremonies to bring strength to new babies; "My mother did this to me when I was a young baby and at the moment it is being disturbed and I'm worried. When I saw the first foresters come into the village, I was shocked. They came in and started operating on my land, damaging sacred sites and medicine trees. For damages of my cultural sites and medicines they have to compensate me - they refused, they said they had no money. I never knew English or Pidgin to talk to them, I told the educated boys to tell them to stop. I never signed any papers, I've always been against the company. Men came out from the lady's womb, came to the world and in our world. Lady's have the right to talk to their own lands. I survive from my land. If I don't have my land, I won't be living in this world."
Unique identifier:
GP08ZB
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
01/08/2003
Locations:
Oceania
,
Papua New Guinea
,
Western Province
Credit line:
© Greenpeace / Sandy Scheltema
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
Containers
Shoot:
Logging Documentation in Papua New Guinea
Documentation the rainforest, the wildlife and the indigenous people in different areas of the Western Province, threatened by destructive logging.
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