Paola Bocardo in a mosquito head net at dusk on the Paraguay River near Fuerte Olimpo, Alto Paraguay, Paraguay, 2 September 2026, with mosquitoes rising off the water around her.

Photographed during the Paraguay River Expedition, a Jaguar Rivers Initiative survey running downstream from Corumbá, Brazil, into Paraguay and Argentina. The initiative is an alliance of Rewilding Argentina, Fundación Moisés Bertoni (Paraguay), Nativa (Bolivia) and Onçafari (Brazil). Photographed by Henry Maillet with support from the National Geographic Society.