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Gallery: Paintings of the disappearing rainforests

By Lucy Dodwell

8 January 2009

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(Image: Harry Holcroft)

There are lots of books out there that illustrate the irrevocable damage that we are doing to the rainforests – but this is one with a twist.

The images in are not photographs, but rather paintings by artist who has travelled the world’s rainforests for the past four years.

Accompanying his paintings are essays written by about Holcroft’s findings and the importance of the world’s rainforests. There is also a foreword from .

See a gallery of paintings from the book

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