Signs of impoverishment dot the landscape of La Moskitia, a region that covers most of northeast Honduras. Houses are wooden shacks supported by stilts, and farm animals roam freely on unpaved streets. Many of the regions people sustain themselves with forestry and logging work in the nearby rain forest. It is a problematic occupation, as laws protecting the rain forest have precipitated an illegal mahogany trade, which in addition to ravaging the environment is filled with physical hazards of its own.