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I love this photo of Helena Gualinga (from her Instagram). She's a human rights and climate activist from Ecuador fighting to stop fossil fuel exploration in the Amazon.

Helena Gualinga, an Ecuadorian indigenous woman, looking at the viewer from behind green leaves, her face painted with black line drawings.

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in reply to Gidi Kroon

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I thought I had posted about her before. Anyway, I like, besides everything she stands for of course, also the contrast between her looking tribal one moment (when at home) and highly fashionable the next (for speaking engagements and such) (the things you have to do to save your land...) but especially how she combines the two.

I found some more photos on her own Instagram that illustrate that point.

Helena Gualinga, her body covered in tribal paint, sitting on a log on a beach. Her black hair is very long and almost reaches the sand. BTW, she was visiting this area with the beach, this was not her homeland.

Helena Gualinga posing on the pink carpet of the 'Green Carpet Fashion Awards' wearing a long light slitted dress and blue silk draped around her. Around her neck she has many intertwined red strings as a necklace. She looks very fashionable.

Helena Gualinga posing in the jungle on her 22nd birthday, wearing a short colourful knitted skirt, a white top, long patterned ear hangers and a red flower in her black hair. And a large amount of bracelets.

Helena Gualinga sitting cross-legged in the jungle wearing a fashionable black skirt and yellow top. Around her neck she wears a patterned band.

Stop mining the Amazon! Protect this woman's land, and actually our whole planet.
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