The most controversial IIRSA projects in the region are often funded by Brazil, and many attempt to build in previously undeveloped areas, like a proposed 152-mile highway near the Tipnis National Park in central Bolivia. Above, Juan Gabriel, 11, a Yuracaré boy,
fishes with a bow and arrow in a lagoon off the Isiboro river in Tipnis Park. Yuracaré communities in Bolivia live primarily by
hunting and fishing, and worry that the highway would bring wholesale
destruction to their lands and way of life.
Noah Friedman-Rudovsky
