10 to 20 amazing photos: deforestation

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Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture (Brazil) Slash-and-burn agriculture (Belize) Soy field abutting against tropical forest (Brazil) Replanting an oil palm plantation on the edge of Gunung Leuser National Park (Indonesia) Oil palm plantations in Malaysian Borneo (Malaysia) Geometric patterns of deforestation (Brazil) Corn planted on former rainforest land (Belize) Pasture and legal forest reserve near the Arc of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (Brazil) Deforestation for cattle pasture in Guatemala (Guatemala) Emergent canopy tree felled for timber in Gabon (Gabon) Charred and still smoking forest in Laos (Laos) Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon (Brazil) Forst clearing for soy (Brazil) Soy field adjacent to Amazon transition forest (Brazil) Pasture; regenerating forest; and forest in Las Cruces (Costa Rica) Pasture and legal forest reserve near the Arc of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (Brazil) More photos: deforestation