Disappearing world: Paraguay's Ayoreo people fight devastating land sales | Toby Stirling Hill

An Ayoreo group in the Chaco whose ancestral land was sold to international ranchers in 2012 is battling for its return - and to hang on to their way of life

Unine Cutamorajna steers his motorbike past the bulbous silhouettes of the samu'u trees. Filled with water and studded with thick thorns, they are fine examples of plant adaptation to the hot, arid climate of the Paraguayan Chaco.

"This is all our territory," he shouts over his shoulder. "The white men tried to take it from us, but we're here again now."