Sabangau
I was gingerly finding a path on roots in the peat land, tread by tread in the reddish water oozing between the trunks of the jelutong and ramin trees. The dense foliage of the new branches still clustered thickly shading the way, but soon it became evident: the 'poems written on the sky' have been almost wiped out at Sabangau River.
Millions of trees have been felled. Central Kalimantan's 568,000 hectares of tropical forest is almost gone. Human greedthe continuous plunder of the timber for personal wealthhas wounded this environment to its very core.
March 22, 2016
Kahlil Gibran bores me, but some words of his suddenly came to mind:
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky
I was gingerly finding a path on roots in the peat land, tread by tread in the reddish water oozing between the trunks of the jelutong and ramin trees. The dense foliage of the new branches still clustered thickly shading the way, but soon it became evident: the 'poems written on the sky' have been almost wiped out at Sabangau River.
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