Photos of amazon soy in Brazil) [updated 2009-04-20]

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Legal forest reserves and large-scale soy farms Large-scale soy in the Amazon Land newly tilled for soy in the southern Amazon Large-scale soy fields in the southern Amazon Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon Lone Brazil nut tree left standing in a deforested area Soy fields and transition forest near Chapada Newly tilled land and forest in the Amazon Aerial view of extensive soy fields and legal forest reserves in the Brazilian Amazon Storm over the Amazon's agricultural landscape Extensive soy fields in the Brazilian Amazon Cerrado clearing for soy agriculture in the southern Amazon of Mato Grosso state, Brazil Aerial view of extensive soy fields and legal forest reserves in the Brazilian Amazon Aerial view of extensive soy fields and legal forest reserves in the Brazilian Amazon Large-scale soy fields in the southern Amazon Soy and Amazon forest in Brazil Soy fields in the Amazon Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon Soy and forest reserves Soy field abutting against Amazon transition forest Stark contrast between forest and land cleared for soy Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon Forest clearing for soy in the southern Amazon of Mato Grosso state, Brazil Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon Legal forest reserve on a mechanized soy farm in the Brazilian Amazon Aerial view of extensive soy fields and legal forest reserves in the Brazilian Amazon Cerrado clearing for soy agriculture in the southern Amazon of Mato Grosso state, Brazil Newly tilled land and forest in the Amazon Soy and forest reserves Land clearing with a tractor Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | Page 6 | Page 7 | Page 8