18 Oct
Image of the Week – 179 (Palembang Peatland)
Photograph: Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images
A man carries his son through the haze on the way to his house as fires burn peatland and fields at Ogan Ilir in Palembang, South Sumatra.
A comment from here: “The largest rain forests in Indonesia and in Brazil are being slashed and burned at catastrophic rates. Indeed one can foresee a day in our lifetimes when there won’t be much left of the Amazon and just a desert in Indonesia. Totally corrupt governments in both places are to blame, but seriously, does anyone in power anywhere really care about that?“
Good question!
