cattle ranching pictures
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![Geometric patterns of deforestation [brazil_0541]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0541.jpg)
![Pasture and legal forest reserve near the Arc of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0568]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0568.jpg)
Pasture and legal forest reserve near the Arc of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0568]
![Cattle pasture and Amazon forest [brazil_0595]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0595.jpg)
![Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0634]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0634.jpg)
![Cattle on a Colombian ranch [colombia_3784]](https://mongabay.s3.amazonaws.com/colombia/150/colombia_3784.jpg)
![Deforestation for cattle ranching [peru_aerial_1353]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mongabay/peru/150/peru_aerial_1353.jpg)
![Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0619]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0619.jpg)
![Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0625]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0625.jpg)
![Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture [brazil_0507]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0507.jpg)
![Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture [brazil_0520]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0520.jpg)
![Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture [brazil_0515]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0515.jpg)
![Herd of cattle in the Amazon [brazil_1247]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_1247.jpg)
![Herd of cattle in the Amazon [brazil_1265]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_1265.jpg)
![Recently cleared cerrado in Brazil [brasil_046]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brasil_046.jpg)
![Cerrado and pasture [brazil_0451]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0451.jpg)
![Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0636]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0636.jpg)
![Deforestation for cattle ranching [peru_aerial_1368]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mongabay/peru/150/peru_aerial_1368.jpg)
![Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0627]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0627.jpg)
![Cattle pasture and Amazon forest [brazil_0589]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0589.jpg)
![Recently cleared cerrado in Brazil [brasil_055]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brasil_055.jpg)
![Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture [brazil_0508]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0508.jpg)
![Deforestation for cattle ranching [peru_aerial_1347]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mongabay/peru/150/peru_aerial_1347.jpg)
![Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture [brazil_0531]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0531.jpg)
![Newly cleared section of Amazon forest [brazil_0552]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0552.jpg)
![Cow in the Pantanal [brazil_1309]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_1309.jpg)
![Forest fragment amid cattle pasture in Colombia [colombia_4437]](https://mongabay.s3.amazonaws.com/colombia/150/colombia_4437.jpg)
![Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0615]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0615.jpg)
![Cattle pasture and Amazon forest [brazil_0585]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0585.jpg)
![Cow in the Pantanal [brazil_1347]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_1347.jpg)
![Clearing of Amazon forest for pasture or soy [brasil_120]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brasil_120.jpg)
![Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture [brazil_0505]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0505.jpg)
![Cattle pasture and Amazon forest [brazil_0604]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0604.jpg)
![Cattle in Colombia [colombia_6299]](https://mongabay.s3.amazonaws.com/colombia/150/colombia_6299.jpg)
![Cattle pasture and degraded forest [brazil_0482]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0482.jpg)
![Colombian cowboys wrangling wild horses [colombia_3835]](https://mongabay.s3.amazonaws.com/colombia/150/colombia_3835.jpg)
![Clearing of Amazon forest for pasture or soy [brasil_125]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brasil_125.jpg)
![Newly cleared section of Amazon forest [brazil_0556]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0556.jpg)
![Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture [brazil_0513]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0513.jpg)
![Recently cleared cerrado in Brazil [brasil_049]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brasil_049.jpg)
![Cattle [brazil_1493]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_1493.jpg)
![Newly cleared section of Amazon forest [brazil_0546]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0546.jpg)
![Newly cleared section of Amazon forest [brazil_0550]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0550.jpg)
![Cattle pasture and Amazon forest [brazil_0590]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0590.jpg)
![Cattle pasture and forest [colombia_1978]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mongabay/colombia/150/colombia_1978.jpg)
![Newly cleared section of Amazon forest [brazil_0548]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0548.jpg)
![Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture [brazil_0511]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0511.jpg)
![Colombian cowboys wrangling wild horses [colombia_3817]](https://mongabay.s3.amazonaws.com/colombia/150/colombia_3817.jpg)
![Cattle pasture and Amazon forest [brazil_0594]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0594.jpg)
![Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0617]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0617.jpg)
![Cattle on a Colombian ranch [colombia_3782]](https://mongabay.s3.amazonaws.com/colombia/150/colombia_3782.jpg)
![Deforestation for cattle pasture near Chugandi [colombia_2386]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mongabay/colombia/150/colombia_2386.jpg)
![Cerrado, transition forest, and pasture [brazil_0456]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0456.jpg)
![Recently cleared land border a tract of Amazon forest [brazil_0532]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0532.jpg)
![Pasture and legal forest reserve near the Arc of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0563]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0563.jpg)
Pasture and legal forest reserve near the Arc of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0563]
![Deforestation for cattle ranching [peru_aerial_1366]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mongabay/peru/150/peru_aerial_1366.jpg)
![Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0612]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0612.jpg)
![Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture [brazil_0522]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0522.jpg)
![Cowboys herding cattle across a river [colombia_2043]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mongabay/colombia/150/colombia_2043.jpg)
![Cattle pasture and Amazon forest [brazil_0584]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0584.jpg)
![Pasture and gallery forest [brazil_0840]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0840.jpg)
![Cattle and birds [brazil_1731]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_1731.jpg)
![Cattle in Colombia [colombia_6311]](https://mongabay.s3.amazonaws.com/colombia/150/colombia_6311.jpg)
![Clearing of Amazon forest for pasture or soy [brasil_123]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brasil_123.jpg)
![Colombian cowboys wrangling wild horses [colombia_3814]](https://mongabay.s3.amazonaws.com/colombia/150/colombia_3814.jpg)
![Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0624]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0624.jpg)
![Cattle pasture and Amazon forest [brazil_0583]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0583.jpg)
![Cowboys herding cattle across a river [colombia_2040]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mongabay/colombia/150/colombia_2040.jpg)
![Cowboys herding cattle across a river [colombia_2065]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mongabay/colombia/150/colombia_2065.jpg)
![Forst clearing for soy [brazil_0571]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0571.jpg)
![Forest fragment amid cattle pasture in Colombia [colombia_4406]](https://mongabay.s3.amazonaws.com/colombia/150/colombia_4406.jpg)
![Forest fragment amid cattle pasture in Colombia [colombia_4413]](https://mongabay.s3.amazonaws.com/colombia/150/colombia_4413.jpg)
![Overhead view of land cleared in the Amazon for agriculture [brazil_0284]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0284.jpg)
![Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0640]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0640.jpg)
![Cattle ranching in the Brazilian Amazon [brasil_070]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brasil_070.jpg)
![Agricultural clearing and forest reserves in the southern Amazon [brazil_0197]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0197.jpg)
![Cow in the Pantanal [brazil_1349]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_1349.jpg)
![Colombian cowboys wrangling wild horses [colombia_3839]](https://mongabay.s3.amazonaws.com/colombia/150/colombia_3839.jpg)
![Cattle pasture in Colombia [colombia_4543]](https://mongabay.s3.amazonaws.com/colombia/150/colombia_4543.jpg)
![Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0623]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0623.jpg)
![Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0613]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0613.jpg)
![Cattle in Colombia [colombia_6309]](https://mongabay.s3.amazonaws.com/colombia/150/colombia_6309.jpg)
![Cattle [colombia_2238]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mongabay/colombia/150/colombia_2238.jpg)
![Cattle in Colombia [colombia_6306]](https://mongabay.s3.amazonaws.com/colombia/150/colombia_6306.jpg)
![Cattle pasture and Amazon forest [brazil_0600]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0600.jpg)
![Cattle pasture and Amazon forest [brazil_0591]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0591.jpg)
![Deforestation for cattle ranching [peru_aerial_1351]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mongabay/peru/150/peru_aerial_1351.jpg)
![Cowboys herding cattle across a river [colombia_2053]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mongabay/colombia/150/colombia_2053.jpg)
![Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0628]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0628.jpg)
![Forest fragments in a sea of soy [brasil_105]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brasil_105.jpg)
![Amazon landscape scarred by clearing for cattle pasture [peru_aerial_1239]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mongabay/peru/150/peru_aerial_1239.jpg)
![Clearing of Amazon forest for pasture or soy [brasil_119]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brasil_119.jpg)
![Amazon landscape scarred by clearing for cattle pasture [peru_aerial_1240]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mongabay/peru/150/peru_aerial_1240.jpg)
![Pasture and legal forest reserve near the Arc of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0565]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0565.jpg)
![Cattle pasture and Amazon forest [brazil_0581]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0581.jpg)
![Herd of cattle in the Amazon [brazil_1256]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_1256.jpg)
![Forest fragment amid cattle pasture in Colombia [colombia_4493]](https://mongabay.s3.amazonaws.com/colombia/150/colombia_4493.jpg)
![Colombian cowboys wrangling wild horses [colombia_3808]](https://mongabay.s3.amazonaws.com/colombia/150/colombia_3808.jpg)
![Aerial view of new cerrado/transition forest clearing [brazil_0207]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0207.jpg)
![Recently cleared cerrado in Brazil [brasil_050]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brasil_050.jpg)
![Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0633]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0633.jpg)
![Herd of cattle in the Amazon [brazil_1250]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_1250.jpg)
![Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0632]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0632.jpg)
![Newly cleared section of Amazon forest [brazil_0554]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0554.jpg)
![Cowboys herding cattle across a river [colombia_2019]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mongabay/colombia/150/colombia_2019.jpg)
![Cattle pasture and Amazon forest [brazil_0597]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0597.jpg)
![Colombian cowboys wrangling wild horses [colombia_3816]](https://mongabay.s3.amazonaws.com/colombia/150/colombia_3816.jpg)
![Recently cleared cerrado in Brazil [brasil_061]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brasil_061.jpg)
![Deforestation for cattle ranching [peru_aerial_1381]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mongabay/peru/150/peru_aerial_1381.jpg)
![Herd of cattle in the Amazon [brazil_1258]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_1258.jpg)
![Cattle pasture and rainforest near Peñaloza [colombia_2107]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mongabay/colombia/150/colombia_2107.jpg)
![Pasture and gallery forest [brazil_0847]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0847.jpg)
![Lake Sandoval in the Peruvian Amazon [peru_aerial_1232]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mongabay/peru/150/peru_aerial_1232.jpg)
![Pasture on the bank of the Amazon river [colombia_0209]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mongabay/colombia/150/colombia_0209.jpg)
![Clearing of Amazon forest for pasture or soy [brasil_113]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brasil_113.jpg)
![Colombian cowboys wrangling wild horses [colombia_3826]](https://mongabay.s3.amazonaws.com/colombia/150/colombia_3826.jpg)
![Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture [brazil_0512]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0512.jpg)
![Clearing of Amazon forest for pasture or soy [brasil_116]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brasil_116.jpg)
![Deforestation for cattle pasture near Chugandi [colombia_2397]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mongabay/colombia/150/colombia_2397.jpg)
![Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture [brazil_0521]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0521.jpg)
![Cattle ranching in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0290]](http://travel.mongabay.com/brazil/150/brazil_0290.jpg)
