Photo gallery: deforestation

Aerial view of deforestation in Sabah, Malaysia	Ranchland and cerrado (Brazil)	Deforested peat forest in West Kalimantan, Indonesia	Forest clearing for soy in the southern Amazon of Mato Grosso state, Brazil (Brazil)
Logging road in Borneo (Malaysia)	Newly tilled land and forest in the Amazon (Brazil)	Scrub vegetation and secondary forest following deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon Location: Southeastern Peru; from Cuzco to Boca Manu (Peru)	Rio Huaypetue gold mine and associated deforestation as viewed from an airplane Location: Southeastern Peru; from Cuzco to Boca Manu (Peru)
Mangroves have been cleared for shrimp aquaculture (Indonesia)	Cattle pasture and degraded forest (Brazil)	Aerial view of deforestation and erosion in southern Madagascar (Isalo)	Forest clearing near Mantandia
Mining trucks; equipment; opne pits and roads at the Rio Huaypetue gold mine in southeastern Peru Location: Southeastern Peru; from Cuzco to Boca Manu (Peru)	Clearing of Amazon forest for pasture or soy (Brazil)	Oil palm plantations in Malaysian Borneo (Malaysia)	Deforestation of dry forest in southwestern Madagascar (Tulear)
Aerial view of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest Location: Southeastern Peru; from Cuzco to Boca Manu (Peru)	Airplane view of deforestation-induced erosion in Madagascar (Flight from Tana West)	Aerial photo of deforestation along road in the Amazon Location: Southeastern Peru; from Cuzco to Boca Manu (Peru)	Mining operation in tropical forest (Malaysia)
Cattle pasture and Amazon forest (Brazil)	Agricultural clearing and forest reserves in the southern Amazon (Brazil)	Aerial view of likely indigenous forest clearing in the Amazon rainforest of Colombia	Oil palm plantation established on former rainforest land (Malaysia)
Legal forest reserves and large-scale soy farms (Brazil)	Deforested peatlands in Borneo	Stark contrast between forest and land cleared for soy (Brazil)	Deforestation and rice fields (Laos)
Logging road in Borneo (Malaysia)	Slash-and-burn agriculture in the rain forest Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru)	Destroyed rainforest landscape in Borneo	Rainforest with road in Sabah, Malaysia
Aerial view of deforestation on mountainous terrain in Costa Rica (Costa Rica)	Deforestation in Sabang (Malaysia)	Lavaka erosion in Madagascar (Airplane flight from Anatananarivo to Maroantsetra)	Slash-and-burn agriculture in the Amazon rain forest of Peru Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of PeruV (Peru)
Aerial view of peatland destruction in Borneo	Burning the savanna for agriculture in Guatemala (Guatemala)	Aerial view of forest fragments in Costa Rica (Costa Rica)	Fires in the rainforest of north eastern Madagascar (Maroantsetra to Tamatave)
Clearing of Amazon forest for pasture or soy (Brazil)	Road for accessing forest timber (Gabon)	Rainforest timber transported in lagoon near Loango National Park in Gabon (Gabon)	Aerial view of coast along western short of the Bay of Antongil (Maroantsetra to Tamatave)
Forest clearing for Tavy (Ifasina / Antoetra)	Oil palm plantations in Malaysian Borneo (Malaysia)	Oil palm plantation on former rainforest land (Indonesia)	Forest fragments in a sea of soy (Brazil)
Cattle pasture and Amazon forest (Brazil)	Deforestation in Taman Hutan Raya National Park	Oil palm plantation and rainforest near Tangkahan village (Indonesia)	Slash-and-burned forest patch near Tanjung Puting National Park (Indonesia)
Forest clearing near Mantandia	Charred remains of a rainforest in Borneo	Agricultural trucks (Brazil)