Survival International has published an aerial photographic gallery of tribes and their lands to mark the 18th UN International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.

In a unique collaboration of renowned international photographers, the audio slideshow pulls together 18 images of tribal and indigenous communities and their diverse lands.

It visits Brazil’s famously photographed uncontacted Indians; the sub-arctic territory of Canada’s Innu tribe; the descendants of the first people to successfully migrate from Africa to Asia, and many more.

The photographs selected by Survival show the remarkable stewardship of tribes when managing their land and its natural resources.

Starting at the lowest point in Africa, the gallery journeys to the world’s largest iron-ore mine in the heart of the Amazon and onto a remote Indian island whose inhabitants survived the world’s deadliest tsunami.

 ‘Tribes from the air’ looks at the power of ancestral knowledge, tribal peoples’ rights to the land, as well as the threats development brings if they are not properly consulted.

Celebrated photographers Tim Allen and Yann Arthus-Bertrand are just two of the artists whose work features in the gallery.

Survival International’s Director Stephen Corry said today, ‘UN indigenous day is an opportunity to celebrate tribal and indigenous people. Their languages, knowledge of their environment and connection with their lands, teach those of us in the industrialised world things we don’t know. These photographs show us what it is to be human, by illustrating the diversity of tribal lives.’