Pictures of mato grosso

Images of mato grosso taken by Rhett Ayers Butler. Last updated: January 2, 2023.

Red-eyed skimmer (family Libellulidae) [brazil_1164]

Caiman with eyeshine

Butterfly peeking over a leaf

Jabiru stork taking flight [brazil_1724]

Mirante do Centro Geodesico

Soy field abutting against tropical forest

Southern Caracara Caracara plancus

Palm trees on the savanna at sunset

Red-eyed skimmer (family Libellulidae) [brazil_0996]

Geometric patterns of deforestation

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

Sunset over the Cuiaba river

Cow in the Pantanal

Mother capybara with baby

Amazon sword plants in the Pantanal

Hyacinth Macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus)

Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga)

Caiman crossing a road

Chapada dos Guimaraes

Jabiru stork (Jabiru mycteria) in flight

Sunset over the Pantanal

Water hyacinth flowers

Red-eyed skimmer (family Libellulidae)

Brazilian Tapir (Tapirus terrestris) [juvenile]

Light brown planthopper with lime green eyes

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

Hyacinth Macaws (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) in flight

Plateau in Chapada

Common green iguana

Forst clearing for soy

Yellow white and black moth

Black caiman (Melanosuchus niger)

Soy and forest in the Amazon

Newly cleared section of Amazon forest

Sunset over the Pantanal [brazil_1925]

Red color form of the postman butterfly

Aerial view of the Rio das Mortes

Yellow and light green butterflies

Cerrado and pasture

Capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)

Pair of Greater Rhea (Rhea americana)

Common Fox (Cerdocyon thous)

Herd of cattle in the Amazon

Jabiru stork taking flight

Turquoise-headed black flying insect

Large-scale soy fields in the southern Amazon

Cocoi Heron (Ardea cocoi) in flight

Greenish brown frog

Geometric patterns of deforestation [brazil_0541]

Blue-eyed skimmer [family Libellulidae Order Odonata (Dragonflies and Damselflies)]

Darth vader insect (Treehopper Family Membracidae)

Nightjar or Pauraque

Crab-eating fox

'Hell' at Parque Nacional da Chapada Diamantina

Cocoi Heron (Ardea cocoi)

Sunset on the Rio das Mortes

Jaguar emerging from the Pantanal

Sunset over the Pantanal [brazil_1926]

Clearing of Amazon forest for pasture or soy

Capybara crossing a road

Fury white planthopper

Postman butterfly Heliconius erato or melpomene (blue form)

Metallic green fly [Long-legged Fly family Dolichopodidae]

Storm approaching over the Pantanal

Night-blooming cactus flower

Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture

Sundown on the Rio das Mortes

Pasture and legal forest reserve near the Arc of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0568]

Lone Brazil nut tree left standing in a deforested area

Chafalote (Rhaphiodon vulpinus)

Soy field adjacent to Amazon transition forest

Hyacinth Macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) [brazil_1662]

Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture [brazil_0508]

Chapada dos Guimaraes [brazil_0148]

Capybara crossing a road [brazil_1603]

Postman butterfly Heliconius erato or melpomene (blue form) [brasil_147]

Limpkin (Aramus guarauna)

Storm over the Amazon's agricultural landscape [brazil_0423]

Mirante do Centro Geodesico [brazil_0143]

Strip of forest in Amazon cattle pasture

Green and brown shield bug

Soy and Amazon forest in Brazil

Amazon Kingfisher Chloroceryle amazona

Southern Caracara Caracara plancus [brazil_1392]

Soy and forest reserves [brazil_0399]

Newly cleared section of Amazon forest [brazil_0552]

Sunset over the Cuiaba river in the Pantanal

Lone Brazil nut tree left standing in a deforested area [brazil_0317]

Matrix of soy fields forest reserves and cattle pasture in the Brazilian Amazon

Patchwork of legal forest reserves pasture and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0636]

Cattle pasture and Amazon forest [brazil_0604]

Postman butterfly Heliconius erato or melpomene (red form)

Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture [brazil_0515]

Mirante do Centro Geodesico [brazil_0110]

Lone Brazil nut tree standing in a sea of soy

Scarred landscape in the Brazilian Amazon

Degraded transition forest n a legal forest reserve

Cattle grazing in the Brazilian Amazon

Clearing of Amazon forest for pasture or soy [brasil_120]

Black-collared Hawk (Busarellus nigricollis)

Cattle pasture and Amazon forest [brazil_0589]

Light green butterflies

Cuiaba seen in the distance from Chapada

Forested cliffs at Chapada

Jabiru stork taking flight [brazil_1722]

Caiman with eyeshine [brazil_1952]

Marsh Deer (Blastocerus dichotomus)

Yellow and light green butterflies [brazil_1519]

Hyacinth Macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) [brazil_1645]

Sundown on the Rio das Mortes [brazil_1200]

Riparian forest and soy [brazil_0333]

Blue-eyed skimmer [family Libellulidae Order Odonata (Dragonflies and Damselflies)] [brasil_168]

Riparian forest and soy

Tree plantations and cerrado in the southern Amazon

Herd of cattle in the Amazon [brazil_1265]

Black Spider Wasp (family Pompilidae) with blue leg segments and orange antenna tips

Pantanal sunset

Southern Tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla)

Cattle and birds

Storm over the Amazon

Postman butterfly

Recently cleared transition forest

Chestnut-fronted Macaws (Ara severus) in flight

Mirante do Centro Geodesico [brazil_0140]

Blue-eyed skimmer (family Libellulidae)

Soy fields in the Amazon [brasil_025]

Herd of cattle in the Amazon [brazil_1247]

Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture [brazil_0505]

Forest fragments in a sea of soy

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

Soy fields and transition forest near Chapada [brazil_0127]

Chapada dos Guimaraes [brazil_0168]

Cerrado-rainforest transition zone

Conversion of transition forest in the Brazilian Amazon [brasil_036]

Giant Ameiva (Ameiva ameiva)

Jabiru stork taking flight [brazil_1725]

Green skimmer (family Libellulidae)

Soy and forest reserves [brazil_0407]

Jabiru stork (Jabiru mycteria) in flight [brazil_1341]

Cerrado and pasture [brazil_0451]

Cerrado transition forest and pasture

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

Jaguar emerging from the Pantanal [brazil_1945]

Soy fields and transition forest near Chapada

Water hyacinth flowers [brazil_1551]

Soy and Amazon forest in Brazil [brazil_0310]

Soy field abutting against Amazon transition forest

Yellow-billed Tern (Sterna superciliaris) in flight

Chestnut-fronted Macaw (Ara severus) [brazil_0703]

Cattle pasture and Amazon forest [brazil_0585]

Soy fields in the Amazon

Edge of a forest reserve bordered by agricutural land in the Brazilian Amazon

Mirante do Centro Geodesico [brazil_0072]

Recently cleared cerrado in Brazil

Soy and forest reserves

Caiman lizard (Dracaena paraguayensis) a type of tegu

Storm over the Amazon's agricultural landscape

Forest clearing near Chapada

Plateau in Chapada [brazil_0051]

Green grashopper

Patchwork of legal forest reserves pasture and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0627]

Female black Howler Monkey (Alouatta caraya)

Rio das Mortes and the surrounding flooded grassland and gallery forest

Yellow-chevroned Parakeets (Brotogeris chiriri)

Rufous-tailed Jacamar Galbula ruficauda

Yellow and maroon orchid

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

Chapada dos Guimaraes [brazil_0176]

Cow in the Pantanal [brazil_1347]

Cleared cerrado

Forage for cattle and plam trees

Soy and forest fragments: the new landscape of the southern Amazon [brazil_0298]

Solitary tree in the middle of a soy field

Hyacinth Macaws (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) in flight [brazil_1668]

Black green and turqoise cricket

Pantanal forest

Recently cleared cerrado in Brazil [brasil_055]

Cattle pasture and degraded forest

Soy and Amazon transition forest

Female Snail Kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis) eating a crab

Conversion of transition forest in the Brazilian Amazon

Deforested plain in the Amazon now used for cattle

Cow in the Pantanal [brazil_1309]

Jabiru stork (Jabiru mycteria) in flight [brazil_1336]

Darth vader insect (Treehopper Family Membracidae) [brazil_1009]

Conversion of transition forest in the Brazilian Amazon [brasil_037]

Pasture and gallery forest

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

Chapada dos Guimaraes [brazil_0155]

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

Soy and Amazon transition forest [brazil_0347]

Immature treehopper (Family Membracidae) insects being 'milked' by ants

Cattle pasture and Amazon forest [brazil_0595]

Aerial view of extensive soy fields and legal forest reserves in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0258]

Rufous-tailed Jacamar (Galbula ruficauda)

Caiman lizard (Dracaena paraguayensis) a type of tegu [brazil_1690]

Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture [brazil_0507]

Chestnut-fronted Macaw (Ara severus)

Recently cleared cerrado in Brazil [brasil_046]

Recently cleared land border a tract of Amazon forest

Patchwork of legal forest reserves pasture and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0615]

Patchwork of legal forest reserves pasture and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0619]

Border between forest and soy

South American Tapir (Tapirus terrestris) crossing a road in the Pantanal

Patchwork of legal forest reserves pasture and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0625]

Newly tilled land and forest in the Amazon

Patchwork of legal forest reserves pasture and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon [brazil_0634]

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