Illegal logging 照片檔

A pile of sawn hardwood timber stacked up beside the Trans Papua highway, Indonesia. After the selected tree is felled it is sawn into slabs/planks using a chainsaw. The slabs are dragged, often by water buffalo, to the nearest roadside for collection by small trucks which will bring the sawn timber to the nearest port city. Some of these lumber operations are not fully permitted. Much of this tropical hardwood finds its way into eco-tourist boardwalks in conservation areas in developed countries.