Illegal loggers in Vietnam train as jungle tour guides

Nguyen Ngoc Anh, 36, who was an illegal logger turned forest protector, poses at Phong Nha National Park, Quang BinhProvince, Vietnam, April 8, 2022. Photo by Reuters/Hoang Trung

Vietnamese logger turned jungle tour guide Ngoc Anh knows the value of trees.

For years he chopped them down illegally to sell as timber, often working with others to carry 100-kg logs out of a rapidly thinning forest.

But as extreme rainfall and floods increasingly devastated his community in the central province of Quang Binh, the 36-year-old read up on the ongoing climate and nature crises and turned instead to tourism and conservation.

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