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Photo highlights from the Southern Amazon (Mato Grosso state) - 2009

Below you will find a collection of photos from Brazil. Pictures were taken by Rhett A. Butler in 2009, 2007, and 1999. While these images are the property of mongabay.com, it may be permissible to use them for non-commercial purposes (like powerpoint presentations and school projects), provided that the images are not altered in any form. Please read this for more details. If you are interested in using an image in a publication please contact me.


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Recently cleared transition forest
Recently cleared transition forest

Tunnel spider
Tunnel spider

Bright green iguana
Bright green iguana

Tree plantations and cerrado in the southern Amazon
Tree plantations and cerrado in the southern Amazon

Soy field abutting against Amazon transition forest
Soy field abutting against Amazon transition forest

Soy and forest reserves
Soy and forest reserves

Conversion of transition forest in the Brazilian Amazon
Conversion of transition forest in the Brazilian Amazon

Capybaras
Capybaras

Pasture and gallery forest
Pasture and gallery forest

Recently cleared cerrado in Brazil
Recently cleared cerrado in Brazil

Southern Caracara, Caracara plancus
Southern Caracara, Caracara plancus

Maroon, brown, and orange insect
Maroon, brown, and orange insect

Scarred landscape in the Brazilian Amazon
Scarred landscape in the Brazilian Amazon

Soy and Amazon transition forest
Soy and Amazon transition forest

Darth vader insect
Darth vader insect

Jabiru stork (Jabiru mycteria) in flight
Jabiru stork (Jabiru mycteria) in flight

Cattle and birds
Cattle and birds

Legal forest reserve on a mechanized soy farm in the Brazilian Amazon
Legal forest reserve on a mechanized soy farm in the Brazilian Amazon

Yellow-chevroned Parakeets (Brotogeris chiriri)
Yellow-chevroned Parakeets (Brotogeris chiriri)

Greater Rhea (Rhea americana), cattle, and terminte mounds in the Pantanal
Greater Rhea (Rhea americana), cattle, and terminte mounds in the Pantanal

 Neotropical cormorants, large and small-billed terns
Neotropical cormorants, large and small-billed terns

Recently cleared cerrado in Brazil
Recently cleared cerrado in Brazil

Soy and forest fragments: the new landscape of the southern Amazon
Soy and forest fragments: the new landscape of the southern Amazon

Chapada dos Guimarães
Chapada dos Guimarães

Jabiru stork (Jabiru mycteria) in flight
Jabiru stork (Jabiru mycteria) in flight

Forage for cattle and plam trees
Forage for cattle and plam trees

Herd of cattle in the Amazon
Herd of cattle in the Amazon

Rufous-tailed Jacamar, Galbula ruficauda
Rufous-tailed Jacamar, Galbula ruficauda

Cerrado, transition forest, and pasture
Cerrado, transition forest, and pasture

Mirante do Centro Geodésico
Mirante do Centro Geodésico

Strip of forest in Amazon cattle pasture
Strip of forest in Amazon cattle pasture

Riparian forest and soy
Riparian forest and soy

Chapada dos Guimarães
Chapada dos Guimarães

Gallery forest and recovering pasture
Gallery forest and recovering pasture

Yellow flowers
Yellow flowers

Soy fields in the Amazon
Soy fields in the Amazon

Rio das Mortes at sunset
Rio das Mortes at sunset

Forested cliffs at Chapada
Forested cliffs at Chapada

Soy and forest reserves
Soy and forest reserves

Mirante do Centro Geodésico
Mirante do Centro Geodésico

 Mirante do Centro Geodésico
Mirante do Centro Geodésico

Rufous-tailed Jacamar (Galbula ruficauda)
Rufous-tailed Jacamar (Galbula ruficauda)

Aerial view of new cerrado/transition forest clearing
Aerial view of new cerrado/transition forest clearing

Soy and forest reserves
Soy and forest reserves

Soy and Amazon transition forest
Soy and Amazon transition forest

Postman butterfly
Postman butterfly

Cattle pasture and Amazon forest
Cattle pasture and Amazon forest

Caiman lizard (Dracaena paraguayensis), a type of tegu
Caiman lizard (Dracaena paraguayensis), a type of tegu

Soy fields and transition forest near Chapada
Soy fields and transition forest near Chapada

Female Snail Kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis) eating a crab
Female Snail Kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis) eating a crab

Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin)
Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin)

Insects being
Insects being "milked" by ants

Postman butterfly, Heliconius erato or melpomene (blue form)
Postman butterfly, Heliconius erato or melpomene (blue form)

Storm over the Amazon's agricultural landscape
Storm over the Amazon's agricultural landscape

Orange bird of paradise
Orange bird of paradise

Extensive forest and cerrado clearing in the southern Amazon for cattle pasture and soy agriculture
Extensive forest and cerrado clearing in the southern Amazon for cattle pasture and soy agriculture

Sunset over the Cuiaba river in the Pantanal
Sunset over the Cuiaba river in the Pantanal

Recently cleared cerrado in Brazil
Recently cleared cerrado in Brazil

Herd of cattle in the Amazon
Herd of cattle in the Amazon

Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon
Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon


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