Image Gallery - Image gallery: deforestation

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Small scale deforestation in the Colombian Amazon	Soy field abutting against tropical forest (Brazil)	Deforestation in the Arfak mountains	Lone Brazil nut tree left standing in a deforested area (Brazil)
Soy and forest in the Amazon (Brazil)	Chopped down rainforest tree	Deforested peatlands in Borneo	Replanting an oil palm plantation on the edge of Gunung Leuser National Park (Indonesia)
Charred and still smoking forest in Laos (Laos)	Airplane view of peatland being drained and cleared in Borneo	Rainforest log adandoned after being washed ashore on a remote beach in Gabon (Gabon)	Shifting cultivation by the Trio tribe in the rainforest of Southern Suriname (Suriname)
Slash-and-burn agriculture (Belize)	Forst clearing for soy (Brazil)	Deforestation for cattle pasture in Guatemala (Guatemala)	Agricultural land outside Bwindi park (Uganda)
Rainforest timber in port (Gabon)	Newly cleared section of Amazon forest (Brazil)	Palm oil plantation in Sabah, Malaysia	Emergent canopy tree felled for timber in Gabon (Gabon)
Cerrado and pasture (Brazil)	Pasture and legal forest reserve near the Arc of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (Brazil)	Corn planted on former rainforest land (Belize)	Oil palm plantation with the rainforest of Gunung Leuser National Park in the background (Indonesia)
Aerial view of an oil palm plantation and a heavily logged natural forest (Malaysia)	Oil palm plantations in Malaysian Borneo (Malaysia)	Emergent canopy tree felled for timber in Gabon (Gabon)	Soy field adjacent to Amazon transition forest (Brazil)
New oil palm development in forest bordering Gunung Leuser National Park (Indonesia)	Oil palm plantation established on former rainforest land (Malaysia)	Aerial view of rainforest that has been slash-and-burned for agriculture (Indonesia)	Bulldozers in the field near a tract of forest (Gabon)
Geometric patterns of deforestation (Brazil)	Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon (Brazil)	Clearing of Amazon forest for pasture or soy (Brazil)	Deforestation for a rubber plantation in Laos (Laos)
Devastated rainforest landscape in Borneo	Geometric patterns of deforestation (Brazil)	Burning the savanna in Guatemala (Guatemala)	Logging road and deforestation in Gabon (Gabon)
Pasture; regenerating forest; and forest in Las Cruces (Costa Rica)	Tavy or slash-and-burn agriculture in Madagascar	Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture (Brazil)	Pasture and legal forest reserve near the Arc of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (Brazil)
Illegally logged wood	Deforestation (Laos)	Aerial vew of burning peatlands and forest in Indonesian Borneo	Large-scale soy fields in the southern Amazon (Brazil)
Slash-and-burn agriculture (Belize)	Patch of jungle that has been slash-and-burned in Borneo (Indonesia)	Small scale deforestation in the Colombian Amazon	Deforestation and soil erosion in Northern Madagascar
Aerial view of estuary, forests, and agriculture (Costa Rica)	Deforested landscape on the boundary of Tanjung Puting National Park (Indonesia)	Legal forest reserve on a mechanized soy farm in the Brazilian Amazon (Brazil)	Burning the savanna in Guatemala (Guatemala)
Industry in Sabah, Malaysia	Soy fields and transition forest near Chapada (Brazil)	Oil palm plantations in Malaysian Borneo (Malaysia)	Aerial view of extensive soy fields and legal forest reserves in the Brazilian Amazon (Brazil)
Degraded transition forest n a legal forest reserve (Brazil)	Soy and forest reserves (Brazil)	Aerial view of new cerrado/transition forest clearing (Brazil)	Orange orchard planted on deforested land (Belize)
Forest cleared for a new oil palm plantation in the Heart of Borneo (Malaysia)	Aerial view of an oil palm plantation and a heavily logged natural forest (Malaysia)	Logging road in Borneo (Malaysia)	Illegally logged rainforest tree in Gunung Palung National Park
Aerial view of slash-and-burned forest near Pangkalanbun; Kalimantan (Indonesia)	Oil palm plantation and rainforest (Indonesia)	Amazon rainforest and cattle pasture (Brazil)	Fuel wood cut from the rainforest of Java (Indonesia)
Cleared cerrado (Brazil)	Destroyed peat swamp in Borneo	Slash-and-burn farming in Peten; Guatemala (Guatemala)	Border between forest and soy (Brazil)
Oil palm plantation and rainforest near Tangkahan village (Indonesia)	Slash-and-burned section of rain forest Charred and fallen logs Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of PeruV (Peru)	Cattle pasture and Amazon forest (Brazil)	Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon (Brazil)