Image: Fires and Deforestation on the Amazon Frontier, Rondonia, Brazil - August 12, 2007
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Description: In this image, intact forest is deep green, while cleared areas are tan (bare ground) or light green (crops, pasture, or occasionally, second-growth forest). The fish bone pattern of small clearings along new roads is the beginning of one of the common deforestation trajectories in the Amazon.
Title: Fires and Deforestation on the Amazon Frontier, Rondonia, Brazil - August 12, 2007
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory
Author: Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon
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