Greenpeace: Sumatra's Dark Satanic Mills

Originally posted by John, Greenpeace Photographer, on board the Esperanza.

As a Greenpeace photographer, I find myself creating pictures in many interesting places. In any part of the world where there is a critical environmental problem, the Greenpeace photographers are there making the best visuals possible to share with everybody. Yesterday was no exception.

It was the last of the twice-daily, three-hour helicopter surveys of Riau province in Sumatra, carried out over the last four days. Every flight survey has been fascinating but this one - documenting the palm oil plantations belonging to Wilmar, one of the biggest palm oil companies in Indonesia - was breathtaking on a scale I have never seen before.

Read more and see some amazing photographs at the source: http://forest4climate.wordpress.com/2008/11/09/sumatras-dark-satanic-mills/