No More Birch Forest
2019 CE • Omsk Oblast, Russia
"I used to spend my childhood summers in a village surrounded by vast birch forests. In those forests, our family picked mushrooms and berries. I remember walking along the trees, just being one part with the natural world. Thirty years later, that forest is no longer there. Cleared out for commercial logging, often illegal, often unregulated. Such a shame."
Image: Brian Jeffery Beggerly, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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