A child from Omati village stands in front of a sacred site limestone karst area which has been illegally felled of trees, then illegally mined, in the rainforests of the Turama extension logging concession, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea.
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Papua New Guinea: Paradise Lost is a new feature story by Japan's Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert now appearing on Gaia Photos.
As photojournalist Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert describes, "My view is filled with green, green as far as I can see: dark green, vibrant green, tired looking green but all green with the occasional splash of muddy brown. I’m in a helicopter flying over the rainforests of the Gulf and Western Provinces, Papua New Guinea (PNG) while on assignment for Greenpeace to document the illegal logging practices taking place within the Paradise Forests."
Further, Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert recalls, "I was expecting to see hectares of cleared forests but not so in this region. Here the multinational logging companies and their PNG offshoot companies carry out selective logging. This means they go through land for which they’ve obtained logging concession permits (not always by fulfilling the correct legal requirements and procedures) and at will the logging company surveyors carve up the virgin forest as they look for and mark with ribbons the prime timber to harvest."
"They work like a slow cancer eating away at the expansive forests from the inside. A chainsaw gang will follow behind with one operator felling up to 35 previously selected trees a day."
Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert's visit to Papua New Guinea tells the story of New Guineans trapped within the logging industry in his photo essay Papua New Guinea: Paradise Lost, now appearing on Gaia Photos, a new international photography source comprised of 48 photojournalists from around the world whose mission is to promote quality and diversity in documentary photography.
Please visit us and see other photo stories on Gaia Photos by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert.
You may also be interested in watching a narrated multimedia slideshow of this story and viewing more photographs of ‘Paradise Lost- Illegal Logging in Papua New Guinea’.
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Photo © Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Greenpeace All Rights Reserved
Papua New Guinea: Paradise Lost is a new feature story by Japan's Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert now appearing on Gaia Photos.
As photojournalist Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert describes, "My view is filled with green, green as far as I can see: dark green, vibrant green, tired looking green but all green with the occasional splash of muddy brown. I’m in a helicopter flying over the rainforests of the Gulf and Western Provinces, Papua New Guinea (PNG) while on assignment for Greenpeace to document the illegal logging practices taking place within the Paradise Forests."
Further, Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert recalls, "I was expecting to see hectares of cleared forests but not so in this region. Here the multinational logging companies and their PNG offshoot companies carry out selective logging. This means they go through land for which they’ve obtained logging concession permits (not always by fulfilling the correct legal requirements and procedures) and at will the logging company surveyors carve up the virgin forest as they look for and mark with ribbons the prime timber to harvest."
"They work like a slow cancer eating away at the expansive forests from the inside. A chainsaw gang will follow behind with one operator felling up to 35 previously selected trees a day."
Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert's visit to Papua New Guinea tells the story of New Guineans trapped within the logging industry in his photo essay Papua New Guinea: Paradise Lost, now appearing on Gaia Photos, a new international photography source comprised of 48 photojournalists from around the world whose mission is to promote quality and diversity in documentary photography.
Please visit us and see other photo stories on Gaia Photos by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert.
You may also be interested in watching a narrated multimedia slideshow of this story and viewing more photographs of ‘Paradise Lost- Illegal Logging in Papua New Guinea’.
Search Gaia Photos for assignment photographers and subscribe to our continually updated new features page too!
New Facebook Fan Page
Gaia Photos now has a new Facebook Fan Page. If you are using Facebook, you can sign up and you'll get new features served on your Facebook wall automatically.
John Brown Photojournalist On LIGHTSTALKERS
My Mondo Library Photography
My Photoshelter Photography Archive Homepage
GAIA Photography and Photojournalism
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