Every year, between December and March, the community enters the reserve to collect the fruit of the Bertholletia excelsa tree.
For each bag of 70 kilograms of nuts, which takes about eight hours to fill, a harvester earns the equivalent of about $40.LUZ DE AMERICA - Assailed by mosquitoes and wary of snakes, Jorge Lengua walks watchfully through the Bolivian Amazon collecting Brazil nuts from the forest floor.
"When it's humid like this, it's worse because there are snakes," he said and lit a cigarette, blowing the smoke around him as"this scares away mosquitoes.""It is hard work, isn't it?" he mused."It's really hard." Clearing his path with a machete, Lengua collects the hard, brown shells dumped on the ground by wind and rain.- 'No other work' -AFP | Martín SILVA
The Brazil nut tree is listed as 'vulnerable' on the Red List of threatened species of the International Union for Conservation of NatureAccording to a 2017 study in the journal Biodiversity and Conservation, the Brazil nut is the only globally traded seed crop collected from the wild.
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