15. Life on land

Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss

Light green vegetables growing, in rows, amid some trees under a cloudy sky. On the right side is a man wearing an orange shirt and gray trousers. He is crouching, tending the plants.

How Not to Eat Poison

By Mariana Della Barba São Paulo, Brazil

A white man with white hair, wearing a cap and glasses, looks at the camera and smiles. His hands are clasped together. He is standing, but resting his right leg on a wooden bench. He wears a yellow and blue checked shirt with black suspenders and dark blue pants. Behind him is a cluster of small leafy trees with thin trunks, a gray wall and some leaves that have fallen from the tree onto the ground.

Matthew Engelhart: A business that changes lives

By Danilo Vivan São Paulo, Brazil

A man with white hair and glasses wears a gray T-shirt, beige pants and a serious expression. Just behind him is a younger man with short hair, wearing a black polo shirt and beige pants. He is walking toward the camera and looking straight ahead. In the background are many trees, a grassy field and a cloudy sky.

Moacir da Silva: All land is fertile

By Alice de Souza Chã Grande, Brazil

A white young man with short, brown hair with a crest, wears black-rimmed glasses and a white shirt. He smiles at the camera. In the blurry background are some trees.

Felix Finkbeiner: Planting trees and ideas

By Inez de Oliveira São Paulo, Brazil

Clean Seas UN Environment

A dark-skinned young woman with straight dark long hair tied in a bun walks towards the camera carrying a large plastic bag in each hand, walking in a street littered with waste. The bags are clear and contain empty plastic bottles. The woman is wearing black sandals, dark blue pants, and a white t-shirt with colorful print. She is also wearing a white mask that covers her nose and mouth. In the background are other people scattered around, out of focus.

Picking up litter: Pointless exercise or powerful tool in the battle against plastic pollution?

By UN Environment United Kingdom

Clean Seas UN Environment

The silhouetted shape of a mountain range occupies the lower half of the photo in dark gray tones. Above the mountains, a dark orange sky at sunset occupies the upper half of the photo.

This Indian birdwatching paradise is ditching plastic

By UN Environment Pangoot, India

A white woman, with blond and wavy hair and light eyes is looking at the right corner of the image. She has her left cheek painted with three red stripes. In the foreground, in the left corner of the image, an indigenous woman appears on her back. You can only identify part of her hair and left arm with her fingers in red and black paint. She's painting the white woman's face.

Emilie Barrucand: “To protect indigenous people is to protect the forest”

By Karina Miotto Paris, France

A 66-year-old man with a mustache and white hair, a bit bald. He wears glasses and a short-sleeved purple polo shirt. His forearm is resting on a table and his hands are clasped together. He smiles, looking to his left. In the background is a living room with a sofa, a large wooden table and a large, leafy green plant.

Carlos Nobre: The Amazonian intelligence

By Mariana Della Barba São Paulo, Brazil

An indigenous man with short black hair, shirtless and wearing only green shorts, with his full body painted black from the nose down. He is sitting on a beach chair, with sunglasses resting on his head and holding a bamboo spear with a feather on its tip. The chair is on dirt ground, and behind him we see parts of a small wooden house with a thatch roof.

The indigenous tribe that escaped genocide

By Maria Fernanda Ribeiro e Mariana Della Barba Guaranta do Norte, Brazil

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