In the heart of the Amazon rainforest Josefina Tunki stands proudly and defiantly in front of a couple of abandoned 20-tonne diggers.
The huge yellow machines were once owned by illegal miners before the local community confiscated them. Their drivers were told to “clear off”.
The machines are also prizes of an ongoing conflict between miners, legal and illegal, greedy for copper and gold and the people living in this paradise.
