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印尼雨林与亚马逊原始森林、刚果原始森林，并称为世界上三大热带雨林。这里不仅生长着白木、加里曼丹铁木、檀木等名贵木材，还是红猩猩、苏门答腊虎等珍稀野生动物的家园。然而近年来由于砍伐，印尼的热带雨林正在减少。一位加入国际绿色和平组织的中国女孩，勇敢地冒着生命危险拯救印尼雨林……被国际媒体誉为“环保斗士”！
在“绿色和平”找到家
性格热情活泼的杨婕，是北京一家大公司的高级白领。向来喜欢挑战的杨婕，说自己久居都市对森林充满了向往，如果能像生物学家那样，每天与各种美丽的植物打交道，与野生动物“交流”，那该是一件多么惬意的事！
2009年一个偶然的机会，杨婕有幸邂逅了国际绿色和平组织，她便毫不犹豫地辞去工作，成了其中的一员。不久就有了去印度尼西亚原始森林建立“气候保护站”的机会。当时包括中国在内的12个国家的“绿色和平”志愿者，被派往森林破坏严重的苏门答腊岛，帮助当地原住民护林。
2009年11月初，杨婕和队友登上了著名的“希望号”考察船。该船是绿色和平全球船队的一员，曾因拦截日本捕鲸船而闻名。它的甲板上还停放着一架小型直升机。
船长是位晒得很黑的白人女性，40来岁，金色的头发，浅色的眼睛，笑起来十分迷人。见到杨婕，这位船上的大姐大，竟然用生硬的汉语幽默地说了句“欢迎来自北京的女孩”。
杨婕发现，绿色和平船上船员们的生活方式都是节能和环保的。这里，垃圾要分类，洗澡时用水的时间不能超过三分钟。每个人参加义务劳动。船上的咖啡厅没有售货员，一些需要花钱的酒水饮料自用自拿，然后在单子上签一下，将来航行结束的时候自己埋单就可以了。
经过一路颠簸，“希望号”停靠在了苏门答腊岛码头上，并受到当地人的热情欢迎。
杨婕第一次执行任务，是收集伐木公司毁林的证据。当时她坐在直升机上负责摄像。一片大片生长了成百上千年的原始森林被砍伐。砍过的地方，一片狼藉。一望无际的野地上堆着伐倒的树木。附近还没有被砍伐过的热带原始森林，郁郁葱葱，生机勃勃。有的大树高达几十米，远远地看去真是壮观而美丽。但是凡是采伐过的地方，却全都像得了斑秃或者牛皮癣，雨林中居然还有一个烟雾弥漫、怪味熏天的一个什么加工厂。
飞机在雨林上空盘旋了将近三个小时，杨婕不断地拍摄，希望自己能够把这里的一切记录下来，让更多的人知道和清醒过来。人类如果不能控制自己的贪婪，这笔账早晚要由自己埋单。
打响“雨林保卫战”
杨婕说，由于得天独厚的自然条件，印尼的森林覆盖了70％的国土。可是近年来由于国际市场对实木家具、地板和纸张的需求日趋增大，使该国原始森林遭到毁坏。
一天，杨婕带着4名同事来到离营地大约l小时车程的毁林现场。几名志愿者向泥炭地的深处一脚深一脚浅地艰难走去，短短500米的路费了一个多小时的时间。路况极其恶劣，一不小心就会陷到泥地里去。每个人都汗流浃背，热带的太阳晒在脸上和胳膊上火辣辣的，即使涂了防晒霜也无济于事。就在这里，杨婕和志愿者拉起横幅，谴责为了利益而破坏环境的某些木材商。“森林破坏，气候犯罪”，这代表着绿色和平组织对毁林人的斥责与控诉。这个抗议场面，被美国CNN等多家媒体记者拍摄了下来，很快就传遍了全世界。
为什么森林破坏等于气候犯罪?杨婕说，被破坏掉的森林是泥炭地森林，它们是保护环境的超人，它吸纳温室气体的能力是普通森林的十倍。
不久，杨婕他们又参加了“绿色和平”安排的修建堤坝工作。挖水渠，打木桩，填沙袋，在40度的烈日下干着强体力重活，还要忍受蚊叮虫咬，那滋味可想而知。没几天，杨婕就变成了“黑人”，手上磨出好多泡，一破钻心地疼。可工程结束后，当她看到引来的泥炭水又兴奋异常。正是因为泥炭地储存的水量让数亿吨的炭得以存留在土地里，让土地肥沃并充满着生机，这个水就是森林的血脉，没有了它，土地将等着被焚烧的命运而死去。
那天，杨婕和队友沿着毁林地里一条人踩出来的小路向前走着，不知不觉之间，竟听到了鸟叫声，眼前随之绿意盎然。他们很兴奋地走进森林中，昂头欣赏无数参天大树，犹如进入梦游般的景象。
杨婕说，全世界90％的棕榈油产自印尼和马来西亚，近年来由于其价格不断攀升，一些大型跨国公司就通过不正当手段，以“油棕种植园”名义获得原始森林地。他们先是砍伐掉大量的珍贵硬木，出口卖很高的价钱，再将不太值钱的木料用于制浆造纸。然后一把火将树桩和小灌木等烧为灰烬，再种上棕榈树的幼苗，对当地自然生态造成极大破坏。而这些财大气粗的家伙又非常蛮横，有时根本不把绿色和平组织的人放在眼里，甚至公然威胁、殴打志愿者。
一次一家棕榈油公司砍伐雨林，杨婕和几名同事为了表示抗议，把自己锁在正在摧毁森林的七台挖掘设备上。虽然当时天气十分炎热，蚊虫成群，他们仍鼓起勇气，拒绝离开机器，直至当地警察赶来，志愿者才终止了抗议行动。杨婕说，绿色和平组织希望以这类“非暴力抗议活动”唤起国际社会的关注。
珍爱我们的地球家园
几个月时间里，杨婕一行在天堂雨林拍摄了大量的采伐现场。在揭露和阻止非法砍伐行径之余，她还对一些乡村进行了访问，了解当地土著居民的真实愿望，向他们宣传环保知识。
在坎帕半岛的沙坝村，渔民丹尼告诉杨婕，随着原始森林被砍伐，清澈的河水遭到污染，过去他一个月能捕到180多公斤鱼，现在只能捕到30公斤，每月开销为100万印尼盾(约800元人民币)的他经常入不敷出。如今，丹尼在森林中放置了4个鸟笼，希望能捕获一种名叫“Murai·daun”的鸟。这是一种濒临绝种的鸟，在当地的鸟交易市场，每只售价高达400万印尼盾。杨婕在丹尼的小木屋看到两只“Murai·daun”，那是一种全身翠绿，鸣声悦耳的小鸟。丹尼说：“让它们离开家园是残忍的。不到万不得已，我不会卖它们。”
走了很远的行程，这位中国女孩一共碰到与丹尼一样的原住民不超过10个，足见这片原始森林的隐蔽和神秘。在原始森林，比原住民更神秘的，是在森林里生活了几千年的土著部落。据当地精通原始部落语言的村民介绍，由于近几年毁林，原始部落只得搬迁。
坎帕半岛是包括苏门答腊虎、红猩猩等濒危灭绝物种最后仅存的栖息地之一。红猩猩，通体红色发亮的毛发，眼珠滚圆，个子娇小。科学家认为它们是世界上最聪明的动物之一。村民告诉杨婕，由于当地毁林比较严重，于是越来越多的野生红猩猩被迫逃走。每当森林发生火灾、人为砍伐或其他灾难的时候，它们就会集体咆哮。与之同时，由于浆纸种植园大规模侵蚀了这批仅存的泥潭森林，造成了苏门答腊虎的栖息地被毁，每一年都有10多人因为受到苏门答腊虎的袭击而死亡。
在有1600名居民的Teluk Meranti村，村长优素福告诉杨婕：“我无法再失去森林。”近几年，他曾多次给印尼有关部门写信。去年12月，美国驻印尼大使前往村里视察，优素福扑通一声，跪倒在大使面前，老泪纵横，期待这个异国人帮助。他告诉杨婕，如今他相信只有诸如“绿色和平”这类NGO组织和国际人士能够帮助他们保护森林。
“如果你有十分钟时间，和美国总统奥巴马面对面站在坎帕半岛热带雨林，你会对他说什么?”在场的一位中国女记者问优素福。
“我会说，总统先生，您也曾在这片土地上生活过，你应该能感受到，原始森林是有力量的，不可侵犯的。它不仅是当地老百姓的‘超市’，它也会庇荫世界上所有的人!”
未遭破坏的热带雨林，又有着怎样的景色?带着探险心理，杨婕决定乘一艘小船去密林深处考察。“当我们顺着坎帕河一直往北走大约3小时后，河道渐渐变得窄小起来，但是河岸两旁的植被变得越发浓密，听到了更多的鸟叫声。”不久河面上出现大片浮游植物，据说当地原住民采摘它们做蔬菜吃。沿河道再往前走，河岸两旁的植物都巨大无比，一小块地上就生活着十几种不同的植物和树木，且一些树木高达30米。还不时看到猴子在树顶上摘野果吃。11个小时后他们到达了美丽的Serkan湖，宽广而平静的湖面被雨林环绕和保护着。夕阳慵懒地洒落在湖面上，整个意境顿时让志愿者们神清气爽，仿佛置身于天堂中。杨婕和一位瑞典美女摄影师，在大口呼吸新鲜空气的同时还拼命拍摄，这景色真美得令人心醉。
2010年春天，从印尼回到北京不久，杨婕就写出了长篇调查报告《流泪的天堂雨林》，以图文并茂的形式，全面披露了破坏雨林的行为，在世界范围内引起关注。西方媒体称赞她是来自中国的“环保斗士”。
不久，全球最大的棕榈油用户“联合利华”公司宣布：不再从破坏原始森林的供应商那里采购原料。世界最大纸张供应商之一的upm，也立即取消与印尼毁林大户亚太浆纸的一切供货合同；许多500强企业纷纷致函印尼政府，要求他们采取措施有效阻止毁坏森林；一些国家首脑还积极探讨，每年拿出大批钱设立专项基金，拯救世界最后的三大雨林！
2010年8月下旬，优素福村长写信告诉杨婕，印尼政府已在苏门答腊岛上的廖内省实施“临时禁伐令”。今后毁林者还将受到严惩。获此消息，这位中国女孩开心地笑了。
Chinese Girl in Action to Save Rain Forest in Indonesia
By Mu Zi
Before Yang Jie joined Green Peace and went to Indonesia, she was a white-collar worker in a big company based in Beijing. A girl of fashion, she dreamed of forest and adventures. In 2009, she happened to meet someone from Greenpeace International. She resigned her job and joined the environmental protection organization.
Her first assignment was to work at a climate protection station in the primitive forest in Sumatra, a large island of Indonesia where tropic forests were being destroyed at a fast rate. Yang Jie and her 11 colleagues were sent there to help local residents protest and stop deforestation activities.
The mission set out in early November 2009 aboard The Esperanza, the famous and the largest vessel in the Greenpeace fleet. Yang found the voyage eye-opening. The lifestyle on the ship is energy-efficient and environmentally friendly. The rubbish must be sorted; while taking a bath, one can’t use water for more than three minutes; everyone must work on the ship voluntarily; the café has no service people; you take whatever takes your fancy and sign a bill and you pay up in one lump sum at the end of your voyage. Yang Jie found it pleasant to travel with noble-minded people: you never worry about your personal belongings.
One night on the journey toward Indonesia, Yang was not able to sleep. So she went onto the deck. To her great surprise, she found the night watcher was a 20-something girl. She patrolled every one hour. The Green Peace people watched out for possible attack of pirates in the Malacca Straits, where pirates are a public hazard. Though pirates are usually\ not interested in Green Peace ships, Hope shut off deck lights anyway and sailed at top speed to pass the strait of trouble.
Yang’s first task was to collect evidence of deforestation made by lumber companies. They went by helicopter and she worked the camera. What she saw was shocking and horrifying. Now many multinational companies use machines to fell trees. After trees are felled, the companies use diggers to dig into the soil to remove roots; a fire is then set to burn all the bushes so that the ground can be prepared for planting palm trees, the source of palm oil, which is highly demanded on international market. The land is ravaged where trees are gone. The helicopter toured over such sites. She photographed the evidence.
According to Yang, the forest coverage rate in Indonesia used to be 70%. As international demand on timber is increasing more and more for making furniture, floorboards and paper, forests in the island country have dwindled at an alarmingly rapid rate of 2 million hectares a year. What she saw testified to the fast disappearance of rain forest. Yang believed that the rain forest in these islands would vanish in less than ten years if it kept disappearing at this rate.
The other day, Yang and four other colleagues visited a deforestation site about an hour away from their camp. They were astounded by the tracts where trees were no more. There were just a few streams and a few dragonflies flying about. There were tree stumps and roots exposed after a fire. The scene sharply contrasted with the forest they had just visited a day before.
They struggled slowly toward the peat ground. They moved laboriously. It took them about an hour to negotiate a trip of 500 meters. The scorching sun beat down relentlessly, biting their arms like animals. On behalf of Greenpeace, Yang and other volunteers spread a streamer condemning the lumber company that had committed that heinous crime. CNN and other media were there to witness the protest. The protest was screened across the world.
In order to stop the tree-cutting by a palm-oil company, Yang and a few colleagues locked themselves to seven digging machines which had been used to destroy trees. They refused to leave until police arrived.
Yang worked there for a few months, they reported and tried to stop on-going deforestation projects; they built a dam to hold water for maintaining the peat ground after the trees were gone; they photographed the deforested lands; they investigated and found how deforestation affected and destroyed local fauna and flora and damaged local life.
Yang and his colleagues visited Teluk Merant, a village situated in the depth of forests. The village head Yosuph told Yang he could not bear losing another inch of forest. Over the past few years, he had written to the government several times. In December 2008, American ambassador to Indonesia came to visit the village. The village head knelt down on the knees in front of the ambassador, weeping and asking the ambassador to do something to help protect the forest.
In a village situated on a peninsular, Yang Jie talked with local fishermen, learning that rivers were highly polluted after forests were destroyed. A fisherman said he used to catch 180 kilograms of fish a month. Now the monthly catch was shrunken to 30 kilograms.
The rain forest on Sumatra is habitats of some aboriginal tribes which have been around for thousands of years. Since large companies have come to destroy forests, these tribes have to move every two months averagely. Local residents can hardly see them anymore. It is widely believed that these aboriginals wearing feathers on their heads and sporting colors on their bodies would vanish forever from the world if the deforestation continues.
In addition to witnessing the alarming scenes of forest destruction, Yang and her colleagues were able to see the unspoiled beauty of primitive forests. She and her colleagues once traveled 11 hours to reach Serkan Lake, a virgin land still protected and flanked by tropic forest. They photographed the gorgeous beauty and felt intoxicated by what they saw.
In the spring of 2010, Yang Jie came back to Beijing. She wrote a long investigation report exposing the destructive lumbering practice of some multinational companies in Indonesia. The report caught worldwide attention.
Shortly after her report was released, Unilever, the biggest buyer of palm oil in the world, declared that it would no longer purchase raw materials from suppliers that destroyed rain forests. UPM, the largest paper manufacturer and supplier in the world, canceled contracts with APP, one of Asia’s largest pulp and paper manufacturers. Many Fortune 500 companies wrote letters to the Indonesian government, calling for effective measures to stop forest destruction. Western countries set up special foundations to help save the world’s three major rain forests. In late August 2010, Yosuph informed Yang Jie in a letter that the Indonesian government had issued a provisional injunction for lumbering in Riau Province in Sumatra. The government injunction has stopped the wanton lumbering for the time being.
在“绿色和平”找到家
性格热情活泼的杨婕，是北京一家大公司的高级白领。向来喜欢挑战的杨婕，说自己久居都市对森林充满了向往，如果能像生物学家那样，每天与各种美丽的植物打交道，与野生动物“交流”，那该是一件多么惬意的事！
2009年一个偶然的机会，杨婕有幸邂逅了国际绿色和平组织，她便毫不犹豫地辞去工作，成了其中的一员。不久就有了去印度尼西亚原始森林建立“气候保护站”的机会。当时包括中国在内的12个国家的“绿色和平”志愿者，被派往森林破坏严重的苏门答腊岛，帮助当地原住民护林。
2009年11月初，杨婕和队友登上了著名的“希望号”考察船。该船是绿色和平全球船队的一员，曾因拦截日本捕鲸船而闻名。它的甲板上还停放着一架小型直升机。
船长是位晒得很黑的白人女性，40来岁，金色的头发，浅色的眼睛，笑起来十分迷人。见到杨婕，这位船上的大姐大，竟然用生硬的汉语幽默地说了句“欢迎来自北京的女孩”。
杨婕发现，绿色和平船上船员们的生活方式都是节能和环保的。这里，垃圾要分类，洗澡时用水的时间不能超过三分钟。每个人参加义务劳动。船上的咖啡厅没有售货员，一些需要花钱的酒水饮料自用自拿，然后在单子上签一下，将来航行结束的时候自己埋单就可以了。
经过一路颠簸，“希望号”停靠在了苏门答腊岛码头上，并受到当地人的热情欢迎。
杨婕第一次执行任务，是收集伐木公司毁林的证据。当时她坐在直升机上负责摄像。一片大片生长了成百上千年的原始森林被砍伐。砍过的地方，一片狼藉。一望无际的野地上堆着伐倒的树木。附近还没有被砍伐过的热带原始森林，郁郁葱葱，生机勃勃。有的大树高达几十米，远远地看去真是壮观而美丽。但是凡是采伐过的地方，却全都像得了斑秃或者牛皮癣，雨林中居然还有一个烟雾弥漫、怪味熏天的一个什么加工厂。
飞机在雨林上空盘旋了将近三个小时，杨婕不断地拍摄，希望自己能够把这里的一切记录下来，让更多的人知道和清醒过来。人类如果不能控制自己的贪婪，这笔账早晚要由自己埋单。
打响“雨林保卫战”
杨婕说，由于得天独厚的自然条件，印尼的森林覆盖了70％的国土。可是近年来由于国际市场对实木家具、地板和纸张的需求日趋增大，使该国原始森林遭到毁坏。
一天，杨婕带着4名同事来到离营地大约l小时车程的毁林现场。几名志愿者向泥炭地的深处一脚深一脚浅地艰难走去，短短500米的路费了一个多小时的时间。路况极其恶劣，一不小心就会陷到泥地里去。每个人都汗流浃背，热带的太阳晒在脸上和胳膊上火辣辣的，即使涂了防晒霜也无济于事。就在这里，杨婕和志愿者拉起横幅，谴责为了利益而破坏环境的某些木材商。“森林破坏，气候犯罪”，这代表着绿色和平组织对毁林人的斥责与控诉。这个抗议场面，被美国CNN等多家媒体记者拍摄了下来，很快就传遍了全世界。
为什么森林破坏等于气候犯罪?杨婕说，被破坏掉的森林是泥炭地森林，它们是保护环境的超人，它吸纳温室气体的能力是普通森林的十倍。
不久，杨婕他们又参加了“绿色和平”安排的修建堤坝工作。挖水渠，打木桩，填沙袋，在40度的烈日下干着强体力重活，还要忍受蚊叮虫咬，那滋味可想而知。没几天，杨婕就变成了“黑人”，手上磨出好多泡，一破钻心地疼。可工程结束后，当她看到引来的泥炭水又兴奋异常。正是因为泥炭地储存的水量让数亿吨的炭得以存留在土地里，让土地肥沃并充满着生机，这个水就是森林的血脉，没有了它，土地将等着被焚烧的命运而死去。
那天，杨婕和队友沿着毁林地里一条人踩出来的小路向前走着，不知不觉之间，竟听到了鸟叫声，眼前随之绿意盎然。他们很兴奋地走进森林中，昂头欣赏无数参天大树，犹如进入梦游般的景象。
杨婕说，全世界90％的棕榈油产自印尼和马来西亚，近年来由于其价格不断攀升，一些大型跨国公司就通过不正当手段，以“油棕种植园”名义获得原始森林地。他们先是砍伐掉大量的珍贵硬木，出口卖很高的价钱，再将不太值钱的木料用于制浆造纸。然后一把火将树桩和小灌木等烧为灰烬，再种上棕榈树的幼苗，对当地自然生态造成极大破坏。而这些财大气粗的家伙又非常蛮横，有时根本不把绿色和平组织的人放在眼里，甚至公然威胁、殴打志愿者。
一次一家棕榈油公司砍伐雨林，杨婕和几名同事为了表示抗议，把自己锁在正在摧毁森林的七台挖掘设备上。虽然当时天气十分炎热，蚊虫成群，他们仍鼓起勇气，拒绝离开机器，直至当地警察赶来，志愿者才终止了抗议行动。杨婕说，绿色和平组织希望以这类“非暴力抗议活动”唤起国际社会的关注。
珍爱我们的地球家园
几个月时间里，杨婕一行在天堂雨林拍摄了大量的采伐现场。在揭露和阻止非法砍伐行径之余，她还对一些乡村进行了访问，了解当地土著居民的真实愿望，向他们宣传环保知识。
在坎帕半岛的沙坝村，渔民丹尼告诉杨婕，随着原始森林被砍伐，清澈的河水遭到污染，过去他一个月能捕到180多公斤鱼，现在只能捕到30公斤，每月开销为100万印尼盾(约800元人民币)的他经常入不敷出。如今，丹尼在森林中放置了4个鸟笼，希望能捕获一种名叫“Murai·daun”的鸟。这是一种濒临绝种的鸟，在当地的鸟交易市场，每只售价高达400万印尼盾。杨婕在丹尼的小木屋看到两只“Murai·daun”，那是一种全身翠绿，鸣声悦耳的小鸟。丹尼说：“让它们离开家园是残忍的。不到万不得已，我不会卖它们。”
走了很远的行程，这位中国女孩一共碰到与丹尼一样的原住民不超过10个，足见这片原始森林的隐蔽和神秘。在原始森林，比原住民更神秘的，是在森林里生活了几千年的土著部落。据当地精通原始部落语言的村民介绍，由于近几年毁林，原始部落只得搬迁。
坎帕半岛是包括苏门答腊虎、红猩猩等濒危灭绝物种最后仅存的栖息地之一。红猩猩，通体红色发亮的毛发，眼珠滚圆，个子娇小。科学家认为它们是世界上最聪明的动物之一。村民告诉杨婕，由于当地毁林比较严重，于是越来越多的野生红猩猩被迫逃走。每当森林发生火灾、人为砍伐或其他灾难的时候，它们就会集体咆哮。与之同时，由于浆纸种植园大规模侵蚀了这批仅存的泥潭森林，造成了苏门答腊虎的栖息地被毁，每一年都有10多人因为受到苏门答腊虎的袭击而死亡。
在有1600名居民的Teluk Meranti村，村长优素福告诉杨婕：“我无法再失去森林。”近几年，他曾多次给印尼有关部门写信。去年12月，美国驻印尼大使前往村里视察，优素福扑通一声，跪倒在大使面前，老泪纵横，期待这个异国人帮助。他告诉杨婕，如今他相信只有诸如“绿色和平”这类NGO组织和国际人士能够帮助他们保护森林。
“如果你有十分钟时间，和美国总统奥巴马面对面站在坎帕半岛热带雨林，你会对他说什么?”在场的一位中国女记者问优素福。
“我会说，总统先生，您也曾在这片土地上生活过，你应该能感受到，原始森林是有力量的，不可侵犯的。它不仅是当地老百姓的‘超市’，它也会庇荫世界上所有的人!”
未遭破坏的热带雨林，又有着怎样的景色?带着探险心理，杨婕决定乘一艘小船去密林深处考察。“当我们顺着坎帕河一直往北走大约3小时后，河道渐渐变得窄小起来，但是河岸两旁的植被变得越发浓密，听到了更多的鸟叫声。”不久河面上出现大片浮游植物，据说当地原住民采摘它们做蔬菜吃。沿河道再往前走，河岸两旁的植物都巨大无比，一小块地上就生活着十几种不同的植物和树木，且一些树木高达30米。还不时看到猴子在树顶上摘野果吃。11个小时后他们到达了美丽的Serkan湖，宽广而平静的湖面被雨林环绕和保护着。夕阳慵懒地洒落在湖面上，整个意境顿时让志愿者们神清气爽，仿佛置身于天堂中。杨婕和一位瑞典美女摄影师，在大口呼吸新鲜空气的同时还拼命拍摄，这景色真美得令人心醉。
2010年春天，从印尼回到北京不久，杨婕就写出了长篇调查报告《流泪的天堂雨林》，以图文并茂的形式，全面披露了破坏雨林的行为，在世界范围内引起关注。西方媒体称赞她是来自中国的“环保斗士”。
不久，全球最大的棕榈油用户“联合利华”公司宣布：不再从破坏原始森林的供应商那里采购原料。世界最大纸张供应商之一的upm，也立即取消与印尼毁林大户亚太浆纸的一切供货合同；许多500强企业纷纷致函印尼政府，要求他们采取措施有效阻止毁坏森林；一些国家首脑还积极探讨，每年拿出大批钱设立专项基金，拯救世界最后的三大雨林！
2010年8月下旬，优素福村长写信告诉杨婕，印尼政府已在苏门答腊岛上的廖内省实施“临时禁伐令”。今后毁林者还将受到严惩。获此消息，这位中国女孩开心地笑了。
Chinese Girl in Action to Save Rain Forest in Indonesia
By Mu Zi
Before Yang Jie joined Green Peace and went to Indonesia, she was a white-collar worker in a big company based in Beijing. A girl of fashion, she dreamed of forest and adventures. In 2009, she happened to meet someone from Greenpeace International. She resigned her job and joined the environmental protection organization.
Her first assignment was to work at a climate protection station in the primitive forest in Sumatra, a large island of Indonesia where tropic forests were being destroyed at a fast rate. Yang Jie and her 11 colleagues were sent there to help local residents protest and stop deforestation activities.
The mission set out in early November 2009 aboard The Esperanza, the famous and the largest vessel in the Greenpeace fleet. Yang found the voyage eye-opening. The lifestyle on the ship is energy-efficient and environmentally friendly. The rubbish must be sorted; while taking a bath, one can’t use water for more than three minutes; everyone must work on the ship voluntarily; the café has no service people; you take whatever takes your fancy and sign a bill and you pay up in one lump sum at the end of your voyage. Yang Jie found it pleasant to travel with noble-minded people: you never worry about your personal belongings.
One night on the journey toward Indonesia, Yang was not able to sleep. So she went onto the deck. To her great surprise, she found the night watcher was a 20-something girl. She patrolled every one hour. The Green Peace people watched out for possible attack of pirates in the Malacca Straits, where pirates are a public hazard. Though pirates are usually\ not interested in Green Peace ships, Hope shut off deck lights anyway and sailed at top speed to pass the strait of trouble.
Yang’s first task was to collect evidence of deforestation made by lumber companies. They went by helicopter and she worked the camera. What she saw was shocking and horrifying. Now many multinational companies use machines to fell trees. After trees are felled, the companies use diggers to dig into the soil to remove roots; a fire is then set to burn all the bushes so that the ground can be prepared for planting palm trees, the source of palm oil, which is highly demanded on international market. The land is ravaged where trees are gone. The helicopter toured over such sites. She photographed the evidence.
According to Yang, the forest coverage rate in Indonesia used to be 70%. As international demand on timber is increasing more and more for making furniture, floorboards and paper, forests in the island country have dwindled at an alarmingly rapid rate of 2 million hectares a year. What she saw testified to the fast disappearance of rain forest. Yang believed that the rain forest in these islands would vanish in less than ten years if it kept disappearing at this rate.
The other day, Yang and four other colleagues visited a deforestation site about an hour away from their camp. They were astounded by the tracts where trees were no more. There were just a few streams and a few dragonflies flying about. There were tree stumps and roots exposed after a fire. The scene sharply contrasted with the forest they had just visited a day before.
They struggled slowly toward the peat ground. They moved laboriously. It took them about an hour to negotiate a trip of 500 meters. The scorching sun beat down relentlessly, biting their arms like animals. On behalf of Greenpeace, Yang and other volunteers spread a streamer condemning the lumber company that had committed that heinous crime. CNN and other media were there to witness the protest. The protest was screened across the world.
In order to stop the tree-cutting by a palm-oil company, Yang and a few colleagues locked themselves to seven digging machines which had been used to destroy trees. They refused to leave until police arrived.
Yang worked there for a few months, they reported and tried to stop on-going deforestation projects; they built a dam to hold water for maintaining the peat ground after the trees were gone; they photographed the deforested lands; they investigated and found how deforestation affected and destroyed local fauna and flora and damaged local life.
Yang and his colleagues visited Teluk Merant, a village situated in the depth of forests. The village head Yosuph told Yang he could not bear losing another inch of forest. Over the past few years, he had written to the government several times. In December 2008, American ambassador to Indonesia came to visit the village. The village head knelt down on the knees in front of the ambassador, weeping and asking the ambassador to do something to help protect the forest.
In a village situated on a peninsular, Yang Jie talked with local fishermen, learning that rivers were highly polluted after forests were destroyed. A fisherman said he used to catch 180 kilograms of fish a month. Now the monthly catch was shrunken to 30 kilograms.
The rain forest on Sumatra is habitats of some aboriginal tribes which have been around for thousands of years. Since large companies have come to destroy forests, these tribes have to move every two months averagely. Local residents can hardly see them anymore. It is widely believed that these aboriginals wearing feathers on their heads and sporting colors on their bodies would vanish forever from the world if the deforestation continues.
In addition to witnessing the alarming scenes of forest destruction, Yang and her colleagues were able to see the unspoiled beauty of primitive forests. She and her colleagues once traveled 11 hours to reach Serkan Lake, a virgin land still protected and flanked by tropic forest. They photographed the gorgeous beauty and felt intoxicated by what they saw.
In the spring of 2010, Yang Jie came back to Beijing. She wrote a long investigation report exposing the destructive lumbering practice of some multinational companies in Indonesia. The report caught worldwide attention.
Shortly after her report was released, Unilever, the biggest buyer of palm oil in the world, declared that it would no longer purchase raw materials from suppliers that destroyed rain forests. UPM, the largest paper manufacturer and supplier in the world, canceled contracts with APP, one of Asia’s largest pulp and paper manufacturers. Many Fortune 500 companies wrote letters to the Indonesian government, calling for effective measures to stop forest destruction. Western countries set up special foundations to help save the world’s three major rain forests. In late August 2010, Yosuph informed Yang Jie in a letter that the Indonesian government had issued a provisional injunction for lumbering in Riau Province in Sumatra. The government injunction has stopped the wanton lumbering for the time being.