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The Imiría lagoon fisheries resources, in the Amazonian region of Ucayali, have slowly restored themselves over the years, providing food security for neighboring Indigenous communities and settlements.

To mitigate the impacts of climate change and resource depletion in the Imiría Regional Conservation Area -located in the Peruvian Amazon- artisanal fishermen from four neighboring Indigenous communities, local and regional authorities, and experts in the field are joining efforts to assess the Imiría lagoon’s fisheries’ resources.

Jellard Muraho stands in front of a man-made dam wall his community built in Ward 14, Zaka district in Zimbabwe.

Fungai Mugwenyi, a village health worker in Zaka district (Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe), carries a bucket of water she drew from a nearby borehole that will be used to wash hands at a community gathering.

We travelled to meet with 9 primary schools in the desert of Northern Kenya to hear about their poor access to water and the resultant poor sanitation and hygiene levels. We congregated under this large tree, an odd but very welcome thing in a desert.

I took this photo on a road trip across the desert of the Northern drylands of Kenya in September of 2016.

Stephen Lomugemoi, 30, in his maize field. Stephen provides for his five children through farming, an increasingly difficult task in an agricultural area with increasingly inconsistent rainfall.

This photo was taken during a Nursery Bed Establishment Training conducted by GWF-Uganda with the aim of promoting Environmental protection through Agroforestry.