‘Just give me 30 men and a few arms’: Honduran Indigenous groups ready to fight to save land

Aviles Morphy: ‘Every year, they clear the forest like crazy, so it ends up like a desert.’ Photograph: Jeff Ernst

Avilés Morphy pulled out his mobile phone and swiped through the photos until he reached a shot showing fallen trees in what looked like the aftermath of a hurricane. “That was a big forest and look how it is now: everything’s been destroyed,” he says. “And these are the coordinates.”

Then he played a video. The camera focused on a startled man wearing a red track-and-field shirt, resting his back against a post as he responded to questioning.