This act begs the question: How can Greenpeace say “Save the forest” while chopping down a tree? In fact, we are against the illegal logging that destroys the forest. We support eco-forestry. It’s not reasonable or practical to forbid all kinds of logging, denying the landowners a source of income. Now, together, we are learning how to take care of the forests, for the good of our common home – Earth.

Destroying is always easier than recovering. As human beings have increased their ability to affect nature, conflicts and catastrophe occur. There’s an old saying in China: “Everything on earth lives under the sky naturally, which is more and more difficult in modern times”. People in the forest need simple things to live on, but in the concrete jungles, people want much more. With woods from legal, managed forestry practices costing up to 15% more than the woods from other sources, there isn’t much financial incentive to buy protected woods – which is one of the challenges we face as we fight against illegal logging.

It was surprising when the thirty-metre high tree fell down. The canoe hasn’t been shaped yet; we’ll describe how the foresters make it in the next few days.

When we took the boat back through the float grasses, we saw golden sunlight shinning onto white lotus flowers in the lake. This is a place so beautiful that it must be really like a heaven. I hope it exists as long as the Earth.