Piquia images - Joel Sartore

Piquia fruit (a forest product), waiting to go to market inBrazil.

Jaime, a boy whose family saved their forest and harvests its fruit, holds up a piquia fruit. (Quiandeua, Brazil.)

Jaime, a boy whose family saved their forest and harvests its fruit, holds up a piquia fruit. (Quiandeua, Brazil.)

Jaime, a boy whose family saved their forest and harvests its fruit, holds up a piquia fruit. (Quiandeua, Brazil.)

Forest fruits bacuri, piquia, and uxi being sold at a street market in Paragominas, Brazil.

Forest fruits bacuri, piquia, and uxi being sold at a street market in Paragominas, Brazil.

Forest fruits bacuri, piquia, and uxi being sold at a street market in Paragominas, Brazil.

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