Deforestation
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Natural deforestation
- Deforestation across Honduras caused by Hurricane Mitch in October of 1998.
- Deforestation resulting from the Mount St. Helens eruption.
Human deforestation
- Producing charcoal in the rainforest.
- Jungle burned for agriculture in southern Mexico.
- Deforestation in the Usambara Mountains in Tanzania.
- Typical landscape of scrub in Corsica.
- Deforested landscape for tea cultivation in Malaysia.
- Cleared forest for road in France
Satellite images
- Deforestation in Amazonia - the roads in the forest follow a typical "fishbone" pattern.
- Deforestation in the Amazon Rain Forest.
- Animation of Amazon deforestation
- Deforestation in eastern Thailand.
- Deforestation in North Korea.
- Deforestation in Bolivia.
- Bolivia deforestation details
- Deforestation in Haiti (left) and the Dominican Republic (right).
- Deforestation in the Willapa Hills (Washington state - USA)