Thailand is the world’s first-largest exporter of coconut milk. The basis of this massive business is the exploitation of macaques for the picking of coconuts. Coconut trees in Thailand can reach the height of 30 metres, which makes supply difficult and dangerous. Male primates can harvest up to 1000 coconuts per day, while humans can barely reach the number of 80. Although they should be protected by law as an endangered species, pig-tailed macaques are violently kidnapped from their natural habitat. Across the country there are several so-called “monkey schools” where these animals are intensively trained to work and then sold to farmers. These macaques are condemned to a life of misery and loneliness, chained to trees or old tires without being able to express their ethological needs, socialise and even touch each other. They usually suffer from behavioural disorders and stereotypies as a result of the experienced trauma.

Russian's border security zone in Mezen. 300 km from Arkhangelsk and few from Polar Circle. In this hostile territory, where environmental and climatic factors make everyday life strenuous, computing errors in the trajectories of satellites from Plesetsk’s Cosmodrome become an unexpected resource. About 1500 km North of the launch base, between forests and tundra, there is a populated area of about ten villages. Inhabitants, who base their own survival on hunting and fishing, are used to build daily life objects - mostly sledges and boats called “raketa”- with the collected fragments of space rockets, making illegal business of the internal metal components. Recovery operations take place during the winter, in which the river beds freeze and makes roads more easily passable with sleds and cars. Since 1997, more than 1,500 launches took off from this site.A highly toxic chemical compound called Unsimmetrical dimethylhydrazine is used as a propellant.