'Really hard' -- the life of an Amazon Brazil nut harvester

Luz De America, Bolivia (AFP) April 14, 2023

Assailed by mosquitoes and wary of snakes, Jorge Lengua walks watchfully through the Bolivian Amazon collecting Brazil nuts from the forest floor. Lengua, 56, wears rubber boots to protect his ankles from stingers and fangs, and uses a long stick to pick up the softball-sized shells that contain about 20 nuts each. "The life of a nut harvester is risky... the forest is dense, there are s