Luke Duggleby: Wrapping a surviving tree, 2013 (Thailand)*nominated for the Atkins Ci
Luke Duggleby: Wrapping a surviving tree, 2013 (Thailand)*nominated for the Atkins Ciwem environmental photographer of the year Cambodian Buddhist monks and local villagers bless one of the remaining large trees in an area destroyed to make way for a banana plantation. While arriving too late to stop the destruction completely, by wrapping an orange cloth around the remaining trees and praying, they are making the trees sacred with the hope to deter future loggers. Following uncontrolled forest destruction in the Central Cardamom Protected Forest in south-west Cambodia, an eco-warrior monk movement had begun to try and protect forests at risk. -- source link
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