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Adam Dean

Giant clams can weigh as much as 500 pounds and look like ivory when carved. The shells, popular in China, are trafficked alongside elephant ivory and other ivory-like products.

Mian Gu Village on China's Nu River is a government housing project designed to encourage people living in the mountains to move down to the river and reduce deforestation.

A worker uses a mallet to dislodge frozen tuna from a Chinese cargo vessel docked at the port of General Santos in the Philippines.

In the overcrowded Quezon City Jail, 2,072 of 3,036 inmates are imprisoned for drug-related offenses. This photo was originally published in "In Philippine Drug War, Death Rituals Substitute for Justice," in February 2017.

Angelito Luciano, 41, was a local volunteer community official who assisted police with anti-drug operations. He was killed in what appears to be a drug-related execution, according to police reports. This photo was originally published in, "In Philippine Drug War, Death Rituals Substitute for Justice," in February 2017.

A worker uses a mallet to dislodge frozen tuna aboard a Chinese cargo vessel docked at the city of General Santos, in the Philippines. This photo was originally published in "One of the World's Biggest Fisheries Is on the Verge of Collapse," in August 2016.

A private hydropower station spills water into the Nu River near Yabiluo. The Yunnan government has banned new small hydro plants on the river's tributaries.

Youngsters play pool and gamble in Bingzhongluo. In remotes parts of Yunnan, like the Nu River valley, there are few job opportunities.

Wu Guiying, 53, an ethnic Nu shepherd drives her goats up into the mountains on the bank of the Nu River close to her home in Xingta Village.

Pu Yi Na, 60, (right) and his wife, Du You Lan, also 60, stand outside their homestead in Cileng, where they raise pigs on the the banks of the Pula River, a tributary of the Nu River. The two have lived in the area their whole lives.