Photos of deforestation [last update 2009-11-24]

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Lone Brazil nut tree left standing in a deforested area (Brazil) Geometric patterns of deforestation (Brazil) Pasture and legal forest reserve near the Arc of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (Brazil) Bulldozers in the field near a tract of forest (Gabon) Slash-and-burn agriculture (Belize) Clearing of Amazon forest for pasture or soy (Brazil) Rainforest logs transported by barge in Gabon (Gabon) Oil palm plantation and rainforest near Tangkahan village (Indonesia) Deforestation along the road in Uganda (Uganda) Aerial view of estuary, forests, and agriculture (Costa Rica) Deforestation in Guatemala (Guatemala) Recent cut rainforest (Belize) Fuel wood cut from the Java jungle (Indonesia) Tree plantations and cerrado in the southern Amazon (Brazil) Aerial view of peatland destruction in Borneo Cattle pasture and degraded forest (Brazil) Aerial view of an oil palm plantation and a heavily logged natural forest (Malaysia) Scarred landscape in the Brazilian Amazon (Brazil) Deforestation and rice fields (Laos) Aerial view of an oil palm plantation and a heavily logged natural forest (Malaysia) Burning the savanna in Guatemala (Guatemala) Damage from a graphite mine near Mantandia Soy and forest reserves (Brazil) Hole in the canopy where rain forest has been felled by subsistence farmers Location: Southeastern Peru; from Cuzco to Boca Manu (Peru) Forest that has been drained then slash-and-burned for agriculture (Indonesia) Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture (Brazil) Storm over the Amazon's agricultural landscape (Brazil) Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture (Brazil) Cleared cerrado (Brazil) Oil palm plantation and rainforest (Indonesia) Legal forest reserve on a mechanized soy farm in the Brazilian Amazon (Brazil) Recently cleared cerrado in Brazil (Brazil) Logging road in Borneo (Malaysia) Deforestation for cattle grazing near Puerto Maldanado Location: Puerto Maldanado (Peru) Aerial view of extensive soy fields and legal forest reserves in the Brazilian Amazon (Brazil) Mining scars in Laos (Thailand) deforestation: Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | Page 6 | Page 7 | Page 8 | Page 9 | Page 10 | Page 11 | Page 12 | Page 13 | Page 14 | Page 15 | Page 16 | Page 17 | Page 18 | Page 19 | Page 20 | Page 21 | Page 22 | Page 23 | Page 24 | Page 25 | Page 26 | Page 27 | Page 28 | Page 29 | Page 30 | Page 31 | Page 32 | Page 33 | Page 34 | Page 35 | Page 36 | Page 37 | Page 38 | Page 39 | Page 40 | Page 41 | Page 42 | Page 43 | Page 44 | Page 45 | Page 46 | Page 47 | Page 48 | Page 49 | Page 50 | Page 51 | Page 52 | Page 53 | Page 54 | Page 55 | Page 56 | Page 57 | Page 58 | Page 59 | Page 60 | Page 61 | Page 62 | Page 63 | Page 64 | Page 65 | Page 66 | Page 67 | Page 68 | Page 69