Save the Trees


  • Photographer
    Lim Yaohui
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    The Straits Times
  • Date of Photograph
    6 April 2012

An effort by environmental advocates to prevent the sacrifice of trees along MacArthur Highway, City of San Fernando. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) had allowed the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to remove the trees so the MacArthur Highway could be expanded from a 4 lane road to 6 lane road in 2009. Environmental advocates in Pampanga decided to paint human figures on the trees as a sign of protest and urged officials to save the trees. The artists fought using donated brushes and white acrylic paint, by drawing human figures with outstretched arms to make these trees appear being hugged and protected. At the moment, the cutting seemed to have stopped, but for how long?

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