Pictures of Deforestation in Peru

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Click here if you are interested in see all the pictures for this topic -- including ones that did not make the cut. Peru's deforestation rate is relatively low at 0.4% per year according to FAO, but due to its large area of forests, this translates to 269,000 hectares of forest lost anually.

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