Team #14, Brilliant Puer Tea estate, Huiming, western Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China. These tea pickers are Akha, and there are 23 picking teams on the estate. The trees of different species have been planted in order to increase biodiversity to terrace tea.
Terrace tea in rows following the contours of the lower slopes of Jingmaishan, in the far southwest of Xishuangbanna, on the Pure Pu'er tea estate. The 23 teams of pickers live in hamlets dotted around the estate; here, members of Team #14, all from the Akha ethnic minority and re-located here, tend the shrubs. Tress of a variety of species have been panted among the terraces to ibcrease biodiversity.