The last currency: Trees
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Sabine Miorini – Austria
Honorable Mention in EDITORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
2nd Place in Environmental – EDITORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Title:
The last currency: Trees
About the Photos:
For seven months I documented one of the fastest-growing yet least visible drivers of deforestation and climate emissions across Africa: charcoal production. From West to East Africa, vast forests once rich in biodiversity are cleared and burned to meet basic energy needs. In many regions, tree loss reaches hundreds of thousands of hectares yearly, releasing millions of tonnes of CO₂ and black carbon. Up to 90% of forest biomass is lost, soils collapse, wildlife vanishes, and vital carbon sinks become carbon sources. This is not distant. It is a planetary crisis unfolding now, largely unseen!
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