Based in Argentina, National Geographic Explorer Luján Agusti is roaming the globe to focus on the lesser known but crucial role of these landscapes in absorbing carbon
“When I want to feel at peace,” says Luján Agusti, “I think of a Patagonian landscape.” Vast and sometimes inhospitable, Argentina’s Patagonia is miles of steppe and desert stretching from the Atlantic to the Andes., Agusti photographs this region and the people who make it their home from her base in Ushuaia in southernmost Argentina.
Agusti zooms in on stories deeply rooted in place. She has documented women in Tierra del Fuego weaving with sustainably sourced local wool, spent time with Indigenous Mapuche women trying to preserve ancestral practices, and visited solitary gauchos living in the steppe and the peatlands—wetland systems with accumulations of partly decayed plants.
In Madre de Dios, in the Amazonian area of Peru, gold mining has turned some of the rainforest into desert and pools of polluted water. Scientists think these areas used to be tropical peatlands that stored vast amounts of carbon.These spongy areas are the focus of her latest project, supported by
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