Pictures of deforestation [last update 2011-12-25]

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Remote Amazon ranch Landslide or washout in the Arfak mountains rainforest Overhead view of the Río Huaypetue gold mine the Peruvian Amazon Recently cleared transition forest (Brazil) Oil palm plantation adjacent to Gunung Leuser National Park (Indonesia) Aerial picture of cattle pasture cleared along a river in the Peruvian Amazon Recently cleared cerrado in Brazil (Brazil) Deforested peatlands in Borneo Logging truck carrying timber out of the Malaysian rainforest (Malaysia) Aerial view of damage wrought by gold mining (Suriname) Aerial view of a massive gold mining area in the Amazon Deforestation for cattle ranching Nursery along the Transoceanica in Peru Soy fields and transition forest near Chapada (Brazil) Slash-and-burn farming in Peten; Guatemala (Guatemala) Soy and forest fragments: the new landscape of the southern Amazon (Brazil) Charred savanna (Guatemala) Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon (Brazil) Slash-and-burn near Gunung Leuser national park (Indonesia) Oil palm plantation near Gunung Leuser National Park (Indonesia) Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture (Brazil) Cut and drained peat swamp forest Slash-and-burn agriculture in the rainforest of Borneo (Indonesia) Recently cleared cerrado in Brazil (Brazil) Legal forest reserve on a mechanized soy farm in the Brazilian Amazon (Brazil) Amazon rainforest landscape scarred by open pit gold mines Riparian forest and soy (Brazil) Soy fields and transition forest near Chapada (Brazil) Cattle pasture and Amazon forest (Brazil) Illegal forest clearing by colonists in an Afro-indigenous reserve Aerial view of Amazon rainforest landscape scarred by open pit gold mining Soy and forest reserves (Brazil) Massive gold mining area in the Peruvian Amazon Cleared cerrado (Brazil) Peatland drainage canal along side a deforested area Deforestation in Guatemala (Guatemala) Oil palm plantation adjacent to Gunung Leuser National Park (Indonesia) Oil palm plantations in Malaysian Borneo (Malaysia) Slash-and-burned patch near Tanjung Puting National Park (Indonesia) Oil palm plantation adjacent to Gunung Leuser National Park (Indonesia) mosaic deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon Aerial view of mangrove forests that have been cleared for farming and aquaculture (Indonesia) Corn field converted from on rainforest land (Belize) Cattle pasture and degraded forest (Brazil) Slash-and-burn agriculture in the rain forest Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru) Ranch along the Amazon river Cleared forest in the Brazilian Amazon (Brazil) Aerial view of estuary, forests, and agriculture (Costa Rica) Deforested plain just outside Tanjung Puting National Park (Indonesia) Cerrado and transition forest cleared for pasture (Brazil) Deforested plain in the Amazon, now used for cattle (Brazil) Mining road through rainforest in Indonesian Borneo Oil palm plantation and rainforest (Indonesia) Aerial view of peatland destruction in Borneo Plane view of Amazon rainforest landscape scarred by open pit gold mines Abandoned homestead in deforestated area (Indonesia) Hole in the canopy where rain forest has been felled by subsistence farmers Location: Southeastern Peru; from Cuzco to Boca Manu (Peru) Destroyed peat forest in Indonesian Borneo Oil palm plantation near Gunung Leuser National Park (Indonesia) Rice fields planted on former mangrove forest land Slash-and-burn near Gunung Leuser national park (Indonesia) Deforestation for cattle ranching Gallery forest and recovering pasture (Brazil) Plane view of Amazon landscape scarred by open pit gold mines Oil palm plantation with forest on the horizon (Malaysia) Airplane view of deforestation caused by the Río Huaypetue gold mine in the Peruvian Amazon Slash-and-burn agriculture in the Borneo jungle (Indonesia) Large-scale deforestation for ranching in the Peruvian Amazon New oil palm planting near a protected area (Indonesia) Forest fragment within an oil palm plantation (Malaysia) Cattle pasture and rainforest near Peñaloza Aerial view of forest and land cleared for oil palm plantations Deforestation in the Colombian Amazon Illegally logged rainforest tree in Gunung Palung National Park Cattle pasture and Amazon forest (Brazil) Deforestation in Myanmar (Thailand) Pasture; regenerating forest; and forest in Las Cruces (Costa Rica) Massive gold mining area in the Peruvian Amazon Aerial view of oil palm plantations on peatlands in Sumatra Cattle pasture and Amazon forest (Brazil) Legal forest reserves and large-scale soy farms (Brazil) Forest clearing in Malaysia (Malaysia) Agricultural fires in rain forests of Madagascar (Maroantsetra to Tamatave) Deforestation in Laos (Laos) Island of forest in a season of soy agriculture (Brazil) Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon (Brazil) Deforestation in Madagascar (RN7) 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