'I'm in love with the forest now': in pictures

From illegal loggers to community rangers in Aceh, northern Indonesia

08 July 2010

In pictures: 'I'm in love with the forest now. I want to protect it'

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All photographs © Abbie Trayler-Smith / Panos Pictures

"I don't know how many trees I cut down. Hundreds. Thousands? I don't know... If there is no training like this, the forest will be destroyed in about 15 years. Gone." - Muktar, aged 44, ex-illlegal logger

Award winning photojournalist Abbie Trayler-Smith, who covered the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia, returned to Aceh as part of a DFID funded project to see how people there are recovering and rebuilding their lives and livelihoods.

Listen to Muktar's story and find out more in our audio slideshow.

 

 

Muktar, a former illegal logger, now patrols the forest as a ranger. Photograph by Abbie Trayler-Smith / Panos Pictures

Muktar, a former illegal logger, now patrols the forest as a ranger. [Photography by Abbie Trayler-Smith / Panos Pictures]