Lucas Bustamante / Aerial view of cut tree trunks in deforested Ecuadorian Choco, Esmeraldas, Ecuador. 25 tree species, many of them threatened, are involved.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Loss of topsoil in deforested land, Central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. June 2010.

Juan Carlos Munoz / Aerial view of palm oil plantation on deforested land, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia 2007

MORLEY READ / Deforested hillsides north of Quito, Ecuador, South America

Laurie Hedges / Drone shot tracking over oil palm plantations in a deforested rainforest landscape, showing frontier between plantation and forest and vehicles on roads, Amazon, Brazil, 2019.

Laurie Hedges / Drone shot tracking over oil palm plantations in a deforested rainforest landscape, showing frontier between plantation and forest and vehicles on roads, Amazon, Brazil, 2019.

Laurie Hedges / Tracking shot moving through dead trees in a deforested part of the Amazon rainforest, the trees have been sprayed with herbicides to kill them, Brazil, 2019.

Laurie Hedges / Tracking shot moving through dead trees in a deforested part of the Amazon rainforest, the trees have been sprayed with herbicides to kill them, Brazil, 2019.

Laurie Hedges / Close-up shot of a digger picking up trees cut from a newly deforested area of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil, 2019.

Laurie Hedges / Logging truck carrying trees cut from a newly deforested area of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil, 2019.

Ashley Cooper / Woman carrying a load of foliage from the surrounding forest to feed goats and cows. Annapurna, Himalayas, Nepal, December 2012

Ashley Cooper / Subsistence farming in the Annapurna Himalayas in Nepal. The terracing has been developed over centuries to farm this steep mountain land.