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2014's Environmental Photographer of the Year
Luke Duggleby, Wrapping the surviving tree, 2013
Photographer: Luke Duggleby, Winner of the Forestry Commission England Exhibition Award 2014
From: Bangkok, Thailand
Photographer description: Cambodian Buddhist monks and local villagers bless one of the remaining large trees in an area destroyed to make way for a banana plantation. Whilst 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 Southwest Cambodia, an eco-warrior monk movement has begun to try and protect areas of forest at risk.
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