'SOS': the rainforest distress call carved into Sumatra's oil palms | Kate Lamb

With his chainsaw-wielding crew, artist Ernest Zacharevic has emblazoned a cry for help across an oil palm plantation, highlighting Indonesia's deforestationDramatically carved into the landscape of a Sumatran oil palm plantation that borders one of the world's most unique rainforests are three ominous letters: SOS.The message stretches half a kilometre alongside a snaking river; a bird's-eye view gives the eerie sense the land has been given voice, and is issuing a mayday. Continue reading...