Paradise Lost - Digital Journalist

A child from Omati village, wearing a shell necklace, stands in front of the remains of a limestone hill (a sacred site for the villagers) which has been logged and then mined for limestone (for use as road surfacing) by loggers, in the rainforests of the 'Turama extension' logging concession, near the village of Omati, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea, Sept. 3, 2008.

A local villager, wearing a headdress of cassowary feathers, paddles his canoe next to a pontoon barge laden with timber felled in the rainforests of Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea, September 3, 2008.

A chainsaw operator cuts down a tree in the 'Turama extension' logging concession, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea, Sept. 7, 2008. Twenty percent of global greenhouse emissions annually are caused by the deforestation of natural forests worldwide.

Workers for Turama Forest Industries tie a cable around two felled trees in order for the bulldozer to extract them from the forest near Morere, in the 'Turama extension' logging concession, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea, Sept. 6, 2008. Twenty percent of global greenhouse emissions annually are caused by the deforestation of natural forests worldwide.

A makeshift cross for church services stands in front of the basic accommodation block for Papua New Guinean workers employed by the giant Malaysian logging company Rimbunan Hijau, in Pulpul logging camp, East New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea, Sept. 21, 2008.