San Jose del Guaviare, Colombia – Jedeku Njibe, a greying man in his 50s with a muscular build, gazed up at the dense canopy of the Amazon rainforest.

Silently, he raised a blow gun to his lips and exhaled in a swift, sudden puff.

Seconds later, a large monkey fell through the foliage, landing on the forest floor where Njibe’s son and nephew rushed to retrieve it. Later that night, they would sit together around a glowing fire and share a meal reminiscent of the ones Njibe had eaten as a child.

It was a moment that symbolised what Njibe's decades-long struggle had been about: returning to a way of life he and other Indigenous Nukak had been forced to abandon.

For centuries, the Nukak had lived in isolation in the Amazon rainforest that blankets Colombia's south, sustained by hunting a

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