Conserve the forests

It is said that a lot of timber will be used to rebuild Aceh and how it could lead to the plunder of the forests. In the disaster areas, apart from being painful reminders, the timber materials and the wonderful boats appear to be very useful resources and good for recycling and reusing even as a tribute to the lost craftpersons.

It is not second best. A great deal of clearing of the land and forest is being done in my country and nature cannot survive when biodiversity is lost, so, we all need to conserve and become better recyclers.

CARMEL NOONAN Newscastle, Australia