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  • Men carrying large baskets of food and good on their heads in the Kolay market in central Kolkata.<br />
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  • A woman cooks food on the banks of a polluted waterway in central Kolkata.<br />
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  • CHINA. Beijing. Abandoned food in the street . 2008
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  • CHINA. Beijing. Abandoned food in the street . 2008
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  • SPAIN. Cadiz. Waiter carrying food in a restaurant. 2006
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  • CHINA. English in use inside a McDonalds restaurant in central Beijing. The rise in use of English in China is evident on the streets of Beijing where store-fronts, billboards and clothes all sport English words and phrases. 2009
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  • CHINA. Hubei Province. Wuhan. A man carrying pot of noodles. Wuhan (population 4.3 million) is a sprawling city that sits on both sides of the Yangtze River. 2008
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  • CHINA. Beijing. An overweight boy near the Olympic village during the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics. 2008
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  • People talking in a small market in Kolkata.<br />
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  • CHINA. Beijing. An overweight boy near the Olympic village during the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics. 2008
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  • CHINA. Beijing. Shoppers on the Wangfujing shopping street in central Beijing. 2006.
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  • CHINA. Beijing. A woman, eating KFC in the street. 2008
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  • CHINA. Beijing. A mother and child near the Olympic village during the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics. 2008
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  • A woman organises her stall in a small market in Kolkata.<br />
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  • A bowl of rice sits at the feet of a young girl.<br />
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  • CHINA. Beijing. A mother and child near the Olympic village during the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics. 2008
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  • CHINA. Beijing. Shoppers on the Wangfujing shopping street in central Beijing. 2006.
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  • CHINA. Beijing. A shopper in the Xidan shopping district in central Beijing. 2006.
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  • CHINA. Beijing. A mother and her child on Tiananmen Square during the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics. 2008
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  • A woman sells squid from her small stall in the city of Wuhan, central China.<br />
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  • People walk through the Kolay market in central Kolkata.<br />
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  • Fish on sale in a market in central Kolkata.<br />
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  • CHINA. Hubei Province. Wuhan. A man carrying pot of noodles. Wuhan (population 4.3 million) is a sprawling city that sits on both sides of the Yangtze River. 2008.
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  • CHINA. Hubei Province. Wuhan. A woman sells squid from her small stall Wuhan (population 4.3 million) is a sprawling city that sits on both sides of the Yangtze River.  2008.
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  • CHINA. Beijing. A mother and her child on Tiananmen Square during the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics. 2008
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  • CHINA. Beijing. A woman, eating KFC in the street. 2008.
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  • CHINA. Beijing. Shoppers on the Wangfujing shopping street in central Beijing. 2006.
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  • CHINA. Beijing. Shoppers in the Xidan shopping district in central Beijing. 2006.
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  • CHINA. Beijing. Shoppers in the Xidan shopping district in central Beijing. 2006.
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  • PORTUGAL. Lisbon. A woman looks over a balcony in the old district of Alfama . 2004
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  • PORTUGAL. Lisbon. Sardines on an outdoor barbeque. 2004
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  • PORTUGAL. Lisbon. Neighbours talk in the streets of the district of Alfama. 2004
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  • Hutongs. Beijing, China.
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  • North Korea. 2009
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  • People eating in a semi-oudoor restaurant in Wuhan, China.<br />
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  • Women return from collecting seafood in the mangroves of the Leizhou Peninsula, Guangdong Province. Illegal seafood collection causes damage to the remaining mangroves of the region. Over the past century, the world has lost over 50% of its coastal mangroves. They have been cleared mainly to make way for commercial shrimp and fish farms. The unique trees which live in salt water are valued for the ability to protect shorelines and are home to a diverse array of flora and fauna. 2010
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  • A woman returns from collecting seafood in the mangroves of the Leizhou Peninsula, Guangdong Province. Illegal seafood collection causes damage to the remaining mangroves of the region. Over the past century, the world has lost over 50% of its coastal mangroves. They have been cleared mainly to make way for commercial shrimp and fish farms. The unique trees which live in salt water are valued for the ability to protect shorelines and are home to a diverse array of flora and fauna. 2010
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  • CHINA. Beijing. A man users a hairdryer to help him cook Chinese kebabs in the shopping district of Xinjiekou . 2008
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  • CHINA. Hubei Province. A view of the Yangtze River near the 3 Gorges.  The flooding of the three Gorges, by damming the Yangtze near the town of YiChang, has remained a controversial subject due to the negative environmental consequences and the displacement of millions of people in the flood plain. The Yangtze River however is reported to be at its lowest level in 150 years as a result of a country-wide drought. It is China's longest river and the third longest in the world. Originating in Tibet, the river flows for 3,964 miles (6,380km) through central China into the East China Sea at Shanghai.  2008.
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  • CHINA. Chongqing Province.  Seafood being sold on the banks of the Yangtze River. The Yangtze River however is reported to be at its lowest level in 150 years as a result of a country-wide drought. It is China's longest river and the third longest in the world. Originating in Tibet, the river flows for 3,964 miles (6,380km) through central China into the East China Sea at Shanghai.  2008.
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  • CHINA. Chongqing Province.  A family in a small town that will be partially flooded by the 3 Gorges Dam. The flooding of the three Gorges, by damming the Yangtze near the town of YiChang, has remained a controversial subject due to the negative environmental consequences and the displacement of millions of people in the flood plain. The Yangtze River however is reported to be at its lowest level in 150 years as a result of a country-wide drought. It is China's longest river and the third longest in the world. Originating in Tibet, the river flows for 3,964 miles (6,380km) through central China into the East China Sea at Shanghai.  2008.
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  • CHINA. Beijing. Shoppers in the Xidan shopping district in central Beijing. 2006.
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  • CHINA. Beijing. Shoppers on the Wangfujing shopping street in central Beijing. 2006.
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  • Locals gut fish in the Zhalong Wetlands, Heilongjiang Province. China. 2011
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  • Chinese Alligators alligators eating (Alligator sinensis),  Anhui Research Center for Alligator Reproduction. Only 120 individuals remain in the wild in China as a result of wetlands reclamation. Xuancheng City, Anhui Province. China. 2010
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  • SPAIN. Cadiz. Children at an outdoor restaurant. 2006
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  • PORTUGAL. Lisbon. Performing 'Fado', Portugal's answer to the blues, in a small cafe in the district of Alfama. 2004
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  • CHINA. Beijing. A man users a hairdryer to help him cook Chinese kebabs in the shopping district of Xinjiekou . 2008
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  • CHINA. Beijing. A couple in the shopping district of Xidan . 2008
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  • CHINA.Wuzhen. A young girl in the town of Wuzhen.  The town of Wuzhen is located in the center of the six ancient towns south of Yangtze River, 10 miles north of the city of Tongxiang, Wuzhen displays a two-thousand-year history in its ancient stone bridges, stone pathways between the mottled walls and its delicate wood carvings all lying above a network of canals and small lakes. 2008
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  • CHINA.Wuzhen. A street trader in Wuzhen. The town of Wuzhen is located in the center of the six ancient towns south of Yangtze River, 10 miles north of the city of Tongxiang, Wuzhen displays a two-thousand-year history in its ancient stone bridges, stone pathways between the mottled walls and its delicate wood carvings all lying above a network of canals and small lakes. 2008
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  • CHINA. Shanghai. A street trader near the Bund. Shanghai is a sprawling metropolis or 15 million people situated in south-east China. It is regarded as the country’s showcase in development and modernity in modern China. This rapid development and modernization, never seen before on such a scale has however spawned countless environmental and social problems. 2008
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  • CHINA. Beijing. A mother and her child on Tiananmen Square during the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics. 2008
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  • Fish for sale in a market in a slum community in central Jakarta.<br />
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  • Men carrying large baskets on their heads in the Kolay market in central Kolkata.<br />
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  • A man selling fruit in the Kolay market in central Kolkata.<br />
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  • Fisherman striking water with sticks to encourage fish to rise to the surface.<br />
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  • Women return from collecting seafood in the mangroves of the Leizhou Peninsula, Guangdong Province. Illegal seafood collection causes damage to the remaining mangroves of the region. Over the past century, the world has lost over 50% of its coastal mangroves. They have been cleared mainly to make way for commercial shrimp and fish farms. The unique trees which live in salt water are valued for the ability to protect shorelines and are home to a diverse array of flora and fauna. 2010
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  • A woman returns from collecting seafood in the mangroves of the Leizhou Peninsula, Guangdong Province. Illegal seafood collection causes damage to the remaining mangroves of the region. Over the past century, the world has lost over 50% of its coastal mangroves. They have been cleared mainly to make way for commercial shrimp and fish farms. The unique trees which live in salt water are valued for the ability to protect shorelines and are home to a diverse array of flora and fauna. 2010
    Mangroves-Guangdong-China-10-16-055.JPG
  • Over-fishing to meet commercial demand has been one of the main causes of mangrove destruction in Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province. Over the past century, the world has lost over 50% of its coastal mangroves. They have been cleared mainly to make way for commercial shrimp and fish farms. The unique trees which live in salt water are valued for the ability to protect shorelines and are home to a diverse array of flora and fauna. 2010
    Mangroves-Guangdong-China-10-16-040.JPG
  • A bowl of yoghurt lies next to a Tibetan rug near Qinghai Lake. Qinghai Lake is China's largest inland body of water, lying at over 3000m on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. The lake has been shrinking in recent decades, as a result of increased water-usage for local agriculture. Qinghai Province. China. 2010
    Qinghai-Lake-China-10-14-059.JPG
  • CHINA. Hubei Province. Wuhan. A monkey in an enclosure in Wuhan zoo. In many of China's 'second-tier' cities, away from the modern zoos in the megacities of Beijing and Shanghai, hide a plethora of smaller unknown zoos. In these zoos, what can only be described as animal abuse is subtly taking place in the form of deprivation of light, space, sanitation and social contact with other animals. Living in awful conditions, these animals spend there days entertaining tourists who seem oblivious to the animals' plight and squalid existence. 2008.
    China-Zoos-08-23-001.JPG
  • CHINA. Hubei Province. Wuhan. People eating in a semi-oudoor restaurant. Wuhan (population 4.3 million) is a sprawling city that sits on both sides of the Yangtze River.  2008.
    Wuhan-China-08-22-033.JPG
  • CHINA. Shanghai. A street trader near the Bund. Shanghai is a sprawling metropolis or 15 million people situated in south-east China. It is regarded as the country's showcase in development and modernity in modern China. This rapid development and modernization, never seen before on such a scale has however spawned countless environmental and social problems. 2008.
    Shanghai-China-08-16-078.JPG
  • CHINA. Beijing. A mother and her child on Tiananmen Square during the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics. 2008
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  • CHINA. Beijing. A couple in the shopping district of Xidan . 2008
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  • CHINA. Hubei Province. Chickens on a farm in a village near the 3 Gorges.  The flooding of the three Gorges, by damming the Yangtze near the town of YiChang, has remained a controversial subject due to the negative environmental consequences and the displacement of millions of people in the flood plain. The Yangtze River however is reported to be at its lowest level in 150 years as a result of a country-wide drought. It is China's longest river and the third longest in the world. Originating in Tibet, the river flows for 3,964 miles (6,380km) through central China into the East China Sea at Shanghai.  2008.
    Three-Gorges-China-08-19-075.JPG
  • CHINA. Beijing. Shoppers on the Wangfujing shopping street in central Beijing. 2006.
    Consumerism-China-06-02-060.JPG
  • CHINA. Beijing. Nightscene on the Wangfujing shopping street in central Beijing. 2006.
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  • CHINA. Beijing. Shoppers in the electronic district of Zhonguancun in central Beijing. 2006.
    Consumerism-China-06-02-016.JPG
  • CHINA. Beijing. A shopper on the Wangfujing shopping street in central Beijing. 2006.
    Consumerism-China-06-02-013.JPG
  • CHINA. Beijing. Shoppers on the Wangfujing shopping street in central Beijing. 2006.
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  • A man eating noodles in a restaurant near Dongting Lake, Hunan Province. Dongting Lake has decreased in size in recent decades as a result of land reclamation and damming of the Yangtze. China. 2010
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  • Locals gut fish in the Zhalong Wetlands, Heilongjiang Province. China. 2011
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  • Inside a restaurant near the Zhalong Wetlands, Heilongjiang Province. China. 2011
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  • The Chinese Alligator (Alligator sinensis),  Anhui Research Center for Alligator Reproduction. Only 120 individuals remain in the wild in China as a result of wetlands reclamation. Xuancheng City, Anhui Province. China. 2010
    Chinese-Alligator-10-11-006.JPG
  • Women return from collecting seafood in the mangroves of the Leizhou Peninsula, Guangdong Province. Illegal seafood collection causes damage to the remaining mangroves of the region. Over the past century, the world has lost over 50% of its coastal mangroves. They have been cleared mainly to make way for commercial shrimp and fish farms. The unique trees which live in salt water are valued for the ability to protect shorelines and are home to a diverse array of flora and fauna. 2010
    Mangroves-Guangdong-China-10-16-059.JPG
  • A local farmer paddles out into his shrimp pond to feed his stock. The development of commercial shrimp ponds is one of the major causes of mangrove destruction in Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province. Over the past century, the world has lost over 50% of its coastal mangroves. They have been cleared mainly to make way for commercial shrimp and fish farms. The unique trees which live in salt water are valued for the ability to protect shorelines and are home to a diverse array of flora and fauna. 2010
    Mangroves-Guangdong-China-10-16-032.JPG
  • CHINA. Hubei Province. Wuhan. Zebra in an enclosure in Wuhan zoo. In many of China's 'second-tier' cities, away from the modern zoos in the megacities of Beijing and Shanghai, hide a plethora of smaller unknown zoos. In these zoos, what can only be described as animal abuse is subtly taking place in the form of deprivation of light, space, sanitation and social contact with other animals. Living in awful conditions, these animals spend there days entertaining tourists who seem oblivious to the animals' plight and squalid existence. 2008.
    China-Zoos-08-23-022.JPG
  • CHINA. Hubei Province. A woman colecting firewood on the banks of the Yangtze near the 3 Gorges.  The flooding of the three Gorges, by damming the Yangtze near the town of YiChang, has remained a controversial subject due to the negative environmental consequences and the displacement of millions of people in the flood plain. The Yangtze River however is reported to be at its lowest level in 150 years as a result of a country-wide drought. It is China's longest river and the third longest in the world. Originating in Tibet, the river flows for 3,964 miles (6,380km) through central China into the East China Sea at Shanghai.  2008.
    Three-Gorges-China-08-19-080.JPG
  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Battur (left),55, and his grandson Huyga (left),6, walk the streets looking for bottles that they can sell to recycling centres. The family's day revolves around a cycle of walking the streets, collecting bottles, drinking vodka, finding any food they can and just making it through the day.As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
    Mongolia_Homeless_32.JPG
  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Huyga takes a rest in the family's garage-home. The family worry most about the future of their child. Street people suffer discrimination  and social stigma from many areas of societyand find it almost impossible to find jobs. Huyga's future is uncertain but on asking what he wanted to be when he was older he revealed; "I want to be a lama [buddhist monk]. The life is good and I can get a lot of food".<br />
As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Huyga, 6. The family worry most about the future of their child. Street people suffer discrimination  and social stigma from many areas of societyand find it almost impossible to find jobs. Huyga's future is uncertain but on asking what he wanted to be when he was older he revealed; "I want to be a lama [buddhist monk]. The life is good and I can get a lot of food".  As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Ounsuren,36, stands and waits for food to be cooked near the family's garage-home.As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
    Mongolia_Homeless_11.JPG
  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Early in the morning the family lights a fire in order to boil a soup which consists of any food they have leftover from the previous day. As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • Vegetables and various food stuffs on sale in a colorful market in a slum community in central Jakarta.<br />
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  • A man carries 'swill' to pig pens in central Funafuti. The majority of Tuvalu's keep pigs as a source of food due to limited supplies of food throughout the country. Tuvalu. March, 2019.
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. A delicate bracelet hangs from the wrist of the grandfather Battur,55. He is among 50% of Mongolians whose religion is Buddhist Lamaist.As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. “We have been living on the streets for 10 years and in this garage for 1 year”, said Battur,55, the grandfather of the family who, in his youth, studied Mongolian Language and Literature at one of the capital’s Universities. Divorcing from his wife in the 1990’s turned him to drink and hence onto the street. As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Otguntugs,28, (right) and Ounsuren (left), 36, in their garage-home. <br />
As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Otguntugs,28, (right) and Ounsuren (left), 36, use what money they have from collecting bottles to purchase cheap Russian Vodka which they drink in order to stave off the bitter cold that embraces Ulaan Baatar for large portions of the year.<br />
As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Battur,55,  searches for bottles through piles of refuse, mainly found outside apartment buildings throughout the city.As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Otguntugs ,28, scours the streets in the early hours of the morning looking for plastic and glass bottles that he can re-sell to recycling stations.<br />
As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Battar (left), 55, eats breakfast on a bitterly cold winter morning. As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. A man lowers himself into a sewer, which he lives in with his wife and children. Underground is warmer and gives street-people th chance to escape the cold Mongolian nights. As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • Women from villages on the outskirts of Kanpur collect water from wells that have been sunk deep into the ground. It is feared that the severe pollution has penetrated the groundwater, allowing many harm toxins to enter the water and food chain.
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  • On the outskirts of Kolkata, piles of leather trimmings lie next to a road. The small pieces are burnt, dried and then sold for use as fertilizer or as food for farm animals. Burning of the leather produces harmful gases that are released into the air. Workers often have little to no protection.  India. November, 2013
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  • On the outskirts of Kolkata, men carry baskets of leather trimmings to a large cauldron for burning. The small pieces are burnt, dried and then sold for use as fertilizer or as food for farm animals. Burning of the leather produces harmful gases that are released into the air. Workers often have little to no protection. India. November, 2013
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  • Farmers working in their fields on the Leizhou Peninsula, Guangdong Province. Many mangroves have been converted into farmland in recent decades to meet the demand for food in China. Over the past century, the world has lost over 50% of its coastal mangroves. They have been cleared mainly to make way for commercial shrimp and fish farms. The unique trees which live in salt water are valued for the ability to protect shorelines and are home to a diverse array of flora and fauna. 2010
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  • A farmer plows his field on the Leizhou Peninsula, Guangdong Province. Many mangroves have been converted into farmland in recent decades to meet the demand for food in China. Over the past century, the world has lost over 50% of its coastal mangroves. They have been cleared mainly to make way for commercial shrimp and fish farms. The unique trees which live in salt water are valued for the ability to protect shorelines and are home to a diverse array of flora and fauna. 2010
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