Photos of aerial

Last updated: 2020-May-8



Plantations as seen from an airplane in South Kalimantan [kalsel_0250]

Solitary tree in the middle of a soy field [brazil_0382]

Aerial view of new oil palm plantations [costa-rica-d_0214]

Palm forest and pasture [brazil_0649]

Aerial view of mining in Tanzania - near the base of Mt. Kilimanjaro -- tz_2573

Deforestation and degradation as seen from an airplane in South Kalimantan [kalsel_0246]

Cattle pasture and degraded forest [brazil_0483]

Aerial vew of burning peatlands and forest in Indonesian Borneo [kalbar_1236]

Aerial view of new cerrado/transition forest clearing [brazil_0208]

Mosaic deforestation and a new plantations in the Colombia Choco

Terraced oil palm plantations -- borneo_2812

Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture [brazil_0518]

Cassava fields near the village of Kwamalasamutu

Clearing of Amazon forest for pasture or soy [brasil_118]

Cattle pasture and Amazon forest [brazil_0587]

Soy field abutting against Amazon transition forest [brasil_082]

Oil palm in Kalimantan Tengah [kalten_0012]

Soy and forest reserves [brazil_0394]

Aerial view of estuary, forests, and agriculture [costa-rica-d_0237]

New deforestation for cattle pasture in coastal Colombia [colombia_2881]

Aerial view of flowering rainforest canopy trees

Aerial view of forest and land cleared for oil palm plantations [kalbar_1279]

Aerial view of damage wrought by gold mining

Aerial view of oil palm plantations and Manuel Antonio National Park [costa-rica-d_0210]

Forest degraded by fire in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0438]

Pasture and legal forest reserve near the Arc of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0559]

Airplane view of a jungle river in Indonesia's West Kalimantan

Indigenous settlement

Tree plantations and cerrado in the southern Amazon [brazil_0233]

Capurgana waterfront

Islands off Bird's Head, northern New Guinea [west-papua_5067]

Islands and reefs off the northern coast of New Guinea [west-papua_0042]

Seasonal streams in Northern Kenya

Gold mining operation in the Amazon rainforest

Aerial view of industrial oil palm plantations in Costa Rica [costa-rica-d_0747]

Cerrado - pasture margin [brazil_0774]

Aerial view of a Jungle river reaching the coast of New Guinea [west-papua_5013]

Winding river in Mato Grosso do Sul [brazil_0001]

Newly cleared section of Amazon forest [brazil_0547]

Aerial view of a forest edge in Costa Rica [costa-rica-d_0276]

Aerial view of shifting cultivation in the rainforest

Cleared section of forest in New Guinea [papua_6115]

Aerial photo of an Amazon tributary [colombia_1353]

Deforestation and degradation as seen from an airplane in South Kalimantan

Wetlands near Corcovado [costa-rica_a_0085]

Clouds over the Amazon

Cerrado-rainforest transition zone [brazil_0360]

Lone tree standing in a sea of soy [brazil_0273]

Aerial vew of cleared peatlands in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province [kalbar_1195]

Storm over the Amazon's agricultural landscape [brazil_0417]

Deforestation and degradation as seen from an airplane in South Kalimantan [kalsel_0242]

Pasture and forest fragment in the Colombian Choco [colombia_1711]

Aerial view of peatland destruction in Borneo [kalimantan_0055]

Small farms, pasture, and bananas

Aerial view of lowland rivers in New Guinea

Transmigration area in West Papua [west-papua_0016]

Mangroves, islands, and reefs near Sorong

Logged and degraded forest in Jambi

Clouds over the Amazon forest [colombia_0009]

Aerial view of peat fires in Borneo

Storm over the Amazon's agricultural landscape [brazil_0426]

Aerial view of a town outside San Jose

Aerial view of damage wrought by gold mining

Forest landscape altered by soy and beef production

Coastal rainforest in Colombia's Darien [colombia_2886]

Rio das Mortes [brazil_0802]

Cleared forest in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0440]

Gold mining damage

Industrial oil palm in Costa Rica [costa-rica_a_0076]

Overhead view of land cleared in the Amazon for agriculture [brazil_0279]

Smallholder forest clearing in the Amazon

Aerial view of mining in Tanzania - near the base of Mt. Kilimanjaro

Cattle pasture and Amazon forest [brazil_0578]

Patchwork of cassava fields, regenerating secondary forest, and natural forest in the Amazon

Outskirts of Paramaribo

Aerial view of forest and land cleared for oil palm plantations [kalbar_1289]

Aerial view of an oil palm plantation and a heavily logged natural forest -- borneo_2805

Settlements and fragmented forest in the rural outskirts of Paramaribo (coastal Suriname)

Patchwork of cassava fields, regenerating secondary forest, and natural forest in the Amazon

Río Atrato [colombia_1791]

Solitary tree in the middle of a soy field [brazil_0427]

Wastewater pit, oil palm plantation, and forest in Borneo [kalten_0039]

Forest fragmentation/deforestation in the Colombian Choco [colombia_1735]

Forest fragmentation/deforestation in the Colombian Choco [colombia_1740]

Legal forest reserve that has been ransacked by squatters [brazil_0762]

Gold mining damage

Aerial view of oil plantations amid forest in Costa Rica [costa-rica-d_0290]

Wetlands area near the Osa Peninsula [costa-rica-d_0663]

Peat swamps of Central Kalimantan

Aerial view of extensive soy fields and legal forest reserves in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0257]

Aerial view of flowering rainforest canopy trees

Gold mining damage

Aerial view of coastal forest and coral reefs in Costa Rica [costa-rica-d_0298]

Tree plantations and cerrado in the southern Amazon [brazil_0232]

Aerial view of industrial oil palm plantations in Costa Rica [costa-rica-d_0741]

Clouds over the Amazon forest

 

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