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Photo Gallery: Rain Forest Deforestation
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Photo: Most of the burned and cleared land in the Amazon rain forest is used for cattle pasture
Photo: Burma supplies 80 percent of the world's teak and in 1983 exported more than 100 million dollars worth of hardwoods, mostly teakPhoto: Most of the burned and cleared land in the Amazon rain forest is used for cattle pasturePhoto: Illegal logging site: felled trees milled into lumberPhoto: Aerial view of the deforestation of the Pantanal regionPhoto: Aerial view of slash-and-burn deforestation in northeastern MadagascarPhoto: Deforestation area in Panama City's Rio Chagres basin
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Cattle graze among the scarred remains of what used to be a lush stretch of the Amazon rain forest in the Brazilian state of Rondonia. Cattle ranching is the leading cause of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, eating away at thousands of square miles of irreplaceable forest lands every year.
Photograph by Michael K. Nichols

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