Aflo / N-22304 Slash and Burn. Burning rainforest to clear land for agriculture. Brazil.

Mark Bowler / Aerial view of rainforest clearance for agriculture, small-scale deforestation slash and burn, Amazon rainforest, Peru

John Downer / Slash and burn agriculture Chiapas Mexico

Konrad Wothe / Slash and burn rainforest destruction, Madagascar

Jabruson / Slash and burn agricultural activity outside the town of Bayanga, ironically where headquarters for Dzanga-Ndoki National Park is located, Southern Central African Republic, March 2012. Forest cleara...

Kevin Schafer / Rainforest clearing for slash and burn agriculture, central Sulawesi, Indonesia

Pete Oxford / Slash and burn clearing, Intag Valley, northwest Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Slash and burn clearing, Intag Valley, northwest Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Naranjilla (Solanum quitoense) crop growing amid clear-cut forest, Intag Valley, northwest Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Slash and burn clearing, Intag Valley, northwest Ecuador

Juergen Freund / Aerial view of slash and burn areas on islands causing run-off of soil and siltation of the coastal reefs, Palawan, Philippines, May 2009.

Juergen Freund / Aerial view of slash and burn areas on island causing run-off of soil into the coastal reefs, Palawan, Philippines, May 2009.

Juergen Freund / Aerial view of slash and burn area on island causing run-off of soil into the coastal reefs and siltation, Philippines, May 2009.

Juergen Freund / Slash and burn deforestation on Palawan island, Philippines, April 2010. A growing population of migrants to Palawan has made slash-and-burn farming a widespread practice. It involves chopping down fo...

Anup Shah / Regrowth of rainforest on reclaimed land previously cleared by slash & burn agriculture. Pondok Tanggui, Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. June 2010.

Anup Shah / Regrowth of rainforest on reclaimed land previously cleared by slash and burn agriculture. Pondok Tanggui, Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. June 2010.

Theo Allofs / Celebes Black Macaque (Macaca nigra) group followed by scientist as they move across slash and burn area near village, Sulawesi, Indonesia

Theo Allofs / Celebes Black Macaque (Macaca nigra) sitting in dead tree in slash and burn area near village, Sulawesi, Indonesia

David Tipling / Slash and burn forest clearance, Alcoy Forest, Cebu, Philippines, March 2009

Chien Lee / Slash-and-burn is a common forest clearing practice, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Slash-and-burn is a common forest clearing practice, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Slash-and-burn is a common forest clearing practice, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Slash-and-burn is a common forest clearing practice, Borneo, Malaysia

Juergen Freund / Slash and burn farming (the "Kaingin" system), typically practised by landless farmers who tend to engage in shifting cultivation by clearing large areas of forest to grow crops, Philippines.

Gerry Ellis / Slash and burn rainforest destruction for agriculture, Belize

Konrad Wothe / Maize (Zea mays) field, one year after forest was cleared using slash and burn agricultural techniques, Madagascar

Konrad Wothe / Slash and burn agriculture, where forest is burned to create agricultural land, Madagascar

Pete Oxford / Arid spiny forest habitat distruction due to slash and burn for agriculture and charcoal. Mangily near Ifaty. South-western MADAGASCAR

Pete Oxford / Tavy or Slash-and-burn-agriculture, nr Daraina, NE Madagascar. This method of farming where new forest is cut down after a few years when the soil is no longer productive is blamed for the permanent d...

Pete Oxford / Tavy or Slash-and-burn-agriculture, nr Daraina, NE Madagascar. This method of farming where new forest is cut down after a few years when the soil is no longer productive is blamed for the permanent d...

Pete Oxford / Tavy, the local name for slash and burn agricultural practices, used by locals to prepare soil for planting or grazing, northeast Madagascar

Pete Oxford / Aerial view of deliberate bush fire in order to make pasture (slash and burn procedure) Piaui State, Brazil, South America

HUW CORDEY / Aerial view of tropical rainforest cleared for agricultural use, Corcovado NP, Costa Rica. Filmed for BBC Planet Earth series. 2005

HUW CORDEY / Aerial view of tropical rainforest cleared for agricultural use, Corcovado NP, Costa Rica. Filmed for BBC Planet Earth series.

Nick Gordon / Previous site of primary rainforest cleared for cattle ranching, probably by slash and burn, Rondonia State, Amazonia Brazil

Jabruson / Recent slash and burn clearance of tropical rainforest for agricultural use, Ituri Epulu rainforest reserve, Republic of Congo

Jabruson / Deforestation along road for slash and burn agriculture, Epulu Ituri Reserve, Democratic Republic of Congo

Pete Oxford / Landscape showing physical scars of slash & burn agriculture where once forest stood, near Ambilobe, Madagascar

Jabruson / Deforestation making way for slash & burn agriculture, Epulu Ituri Rainforest Reserve, Democratic Republic of Congo

Jabruson / Deforestation of tropical rainforest for cattle pasture, Butembo, Democratic Republic of Congo

John Downer / Slash and burn agriculture, Chiapas, Mexico

Jabruson / People clearing through recent deforestation of tropical rainforest habitat for slash and burn agriculture, Epulu Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire

Jabruson / Charcoal production on site of former tropical rainforest habitat, cleared for other use, Tongo, Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire

Jabruson / Slash and burn tropical rainforest clearance to make way for agriculture, Mbomo NP, Odzala NP, Republic of Congo

Ian Lockwood / Jhuum - slash & burn cultivation of land for crop planting or cattle grazing, Garo Hills near Williamnagar, Meghalya, India

Karl Ammann / Aerial view of logging camp, Gabon, Central Africa. Camps attract hunters, who sell bushmeat to the local workforce and clear-cut large forest sreas for slash and burn farming. Logging vehicles are al...

Nick Garbutt / Slash and burn forest clearance. Spiny forest, Ifaty, SW Madagascar

Konrad Wothe / Tropical rainforest being cleared for slash and burn agriculture, Irian Jaya, Indonesia

Gerry Ellis / Rainforest slash and burn destruction, south Amazon Basin, Brazil

Gerry Ellis / Traditional slash and burn clearcut in virgin lowland tropical rainforest east of Aird River Delta, Kikori Basin, Papua New Guinea

Tui De Roy / Native pastoralists (Homo sapiens) have set an illegal fire, destroying Paramo Grassland habitat, above 4,000 meters, central Andean plateau, Cotopaxi National Park, Ecuador

Nick Garbutt / Betsimisaraka women planting manioc after slash and burn near Mantadia NP, Madagascar

Pete Oxford / Cleared for Cattle. Slash and burn agriculture. Cerrado habitat. Brazil. South America. Threatened habitat

Pete Oxford / Cleared for Cattle. Slash and burn agriculture. Cerrado habitat. Brazil. South America. Threatened habitat

Jabruson / Slash and burn agriculture subsistance maize farming in rainforest, Congo / Gabon border, Congo

Nick Garbutt / Slash and burn forest clearance for agriculture in Spiny forest, Ifaty, SW Madagascar

Nick Garbutt / Slash and burn forest clearance, Spiny Forest, Ifaty South West Madagascar

Pete Oxford / Slash and burn clearing, Intag Valley, northwest Ecuador

Theo Allofs / Celebes Black Macaque (Macaca nigra) group walking in slash and burn area near village, Sulawesi, Indonesia

Chien Lee / Slash-and-burn is a common forest clearing practice, Borneo, Malaysia

Kim Taylor / Agricultural landscape with rice paddies, showing slash and burn in progress on higher hillsides, Central Madagascar