Below:  Our class venturing deep into the Amazon to learn about the Forest Fragment Biological Research Station - a unique 30-year research area overseen by a partnership between the Smithsonian Institution (U.S.) and the Brazilian Institute for Research in the Amazon (INPA).

Below:  Villagers near Inhambane, Mozambique, a very rural and poor region but an area where food crops grow fairly easily.  The villagers showed us around their communities, schools, health center, etc.

Below:  IED students touring the protected lakes a few kilometers away from the Amazon River.  Note the fish jumping high above the boat in the picture.  The local guides (one of which is sitting high on the top right) initiated their own local system of fisheries conservation in response to commercial fishing encroachment.

Below:  A scene from Langa township - one of the oldest Townships in Cape Town, South Africa, and a product of the Apartheid system.