Protectors of the Forest

As I sit and watch the last vacant space across from our apartment, once filled with trees, being ripped apart by men with fire, pangas, and chainsaws, I wonder...is it worth it? more flats when the last that went up are still vacant? do we have to rip down every tree? is this progress?

I felt pained as the trees i enjoyed and appreciated were turned into firewood.

At least i can still stroll or drive over to Nakumatt and buy food...but what about forest people who live from trees, their very lives depend on trees.

For them the loss of even one tree must be terrible. Its time their voices be heard.