Jailed For tree-Cutting

Stan Grossfeld

The Boston Globe

Alexander Rakotomandimby, serving a seven-year sentence for burning trees to clear land, hides his anguish in the Antanimora prison in Madagascar. He cleared the land to plant rice for his family of ten. Eighty-five percent of the country is deforested.

Stan Grossfeld, "Jailed For tree-Cutting," in POYi Archive, Item #21688, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/21688 (accessed November 26, 2024).