Photos: Amazon rainforest destruction

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Mining operations at Rio Huaypetue gold mine... <a href='https://pictures.butlernature.com/pix/peru/aerial-rainforest-Flight_1022_1543.html'>More</a>

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Soy and Amazon transition forest... <a href='https://pictures.butlernature.com/brazil/images/brazil_0349.html'>More</a>

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Riparian forest and soy... <a href='https://pictures.butlernature.com/brazil/images/brazil_0331.html'>More</a>

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Clear-cutting in the Amazon rainforest as viewed overhead by plane... <a href='https://pictures.butlernature.com/pix/peru/aerial-rainforest-Flight_1022_1554.html'>More</a>

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Deforestation in the Colombian Amazon... <a href='https://pictures.butlernature.com/colombia/images/colombia_0137.html'>More</a>

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Clearing of Amazon forest for pasture or soy... <a href='https://pictures.butlernature.com/brazil/images/brasil_128.html'>More</a>

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Aerial picture of cattle pasture cleared along a river in the Amazon... <a href='https://pictures.butlernature.com/peru/images/peru_aerial_0394.html'>More</a>

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Aircraft view of Amazon landscape scarred by open pit gold mines... <a href='https://pictures.butlernature.com/peru/images/peru_aerial_1524.html'>More</a>

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