SOUTH AMERICAN PICTURES

Belize

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© South American Pictures/ Chris Sharp

Belize.   Chicle gatherers, known as Chicleros, have to climb to great heights on the sapodilla trees, cutting the bark with deep slashes, down which the sap or chicle runs into a container, and is then collected..

 

 

 

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