English News Weekly

386 - Walking Backwards to Advance Trees

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This week’s ENW podcast reports on a wonderfully strange gesture by a man in Indonesia who is protesting against deforestation. Indonesia has the 3rd highest global deforestation in the world – behind only Brazil and the Congo. At the current rate of tree felling, the percentage of the forest in Indonesia will continue to decrease at an alarming high rate. So, how is the protest strange? How long will it last? What is hoped to have been achieved by its end? ENGLISH NEWS WEEKLY will try and explain all! (PDF) Download MP3