Gerry Ellis / Temperate rainforest clear cutting with logging road, Olympic National Forest, Washington

Gerry Ellis / Rainforest logging activities near eastern boundary of the Kikori Delta, Papua New Guinea

Gerry Ellis / Logging road and erosion in lowland tropical rainforest east of Aird River Delta, Kikori Basin, Papua New Guinea

Pete Oxford / Recent clearing along Maxus Road, originally an oil road now showing colonization, Yasuni National Park, Amazon, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Maxus Road, originally an oil road, and building showing colonization, Yasuni National Park, Amazon, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Maxus Road, originally an oil road and building showing colonization, Yasuni National Park, Amazon, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Maxus Road, originally an oil road and buildings showing colonization of rainforest, Yasuni National Park, Amazon, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Maxus Road, originally an oil road, and clear cut, Yasuni National Park, Amazon, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Clear cut near Maxus Road, originally an oil road, now showing colonization, Yasuni National Park, Amazon, Ecuador

Daniel Heuclin / Aerial view of logging area by a dirt road in primary forest. French Guyana, August 2008.

Luciano Candisani / Large area of forest cleared for cattle grazing, Pantanal showing original forest, Brazil

Luciano Candisani / Large area of forest cleared for cattle grazing, Pantanal, Brazil

Pete Oxford / Sustainable logging operation, Iwokrama Rainforest Reserve, Guyana

Steven David Miller / Conservationists protest sign "Stop Road to Climate Chaos" against the felling of old growth trees in Tasmania's pristine Florentine, southwest Tasmania, Australia March 2007

Steven David Miller / Conservationists protest sign "Stop Road to Climate Chaos" against the felling of old growth trees in Tasmania's pristine Florentine, southwest Tasmania, Australia March 2007

Neil Lucas / Logging truck with full load of cut logs on road which transverses the rainforest, Danham Valley, Borneo, September 2007

Neil Lucas / Logging truck with full load approaching on road which transverses the rainforest, Danham Valley, Borneo, September 2007

Neil Lucas / Logging truck with full load of cut logs on road which transverses the rainforest, Danham Valley, Borneo

Neil Lucas / Logging truck with full load of cut logs approaching on road which transverses the rainforest, Danham Valley, Borneo

Neil Lucas / Logging truck with full load approaching on road through the rainforest, Danham Valley, Borneo

Thomas Marent / Truck with timber from a logging area, Danum Valley Conservation Area, Borneo, Malaysia

Thomas Marent / Truck with timber from a logging area, Danum Valley Conservation Area, Borneo, Malaysia

Thomas Marent / Truck with timber from a logging area, Danum Valley Conservation Area, Borneo, Malaysia

Thomas Marent / Truck with timber from a logging area, Danum Valley Conservation Area, Borneo, Malaysia

Thomas Marent / Truck with timber from a logging area, Danum Valley Conservation Area, Borneo, Malaysia

Jerry Monkman / A young girl playing with the autumn leaves on an old logging road on the northern slopes of Rice Hill in the Green Mountains, Wardsboro, Vermont, USA

Jerry Monkman / Mountain biking on an old logging road through the Green Mountains on the northern slopes of Rice Hill. Wardsboro, Vermont, USA

Jerry Monkman / Mountain Biking on an old logging road near Loon Mountain, White Mountains, New Hampshire, USA

Jerry Monkman / Mountain Biking on an old logging road near Loon Mountain, White Mountains, New Hampshire, USA, autumn

Bernard Walton / Lorry carrying timber out of rainforest, active deforestation in Gabon, also the road makes forest accesible for hunting

Karl Ammann / Logging road in Central African rainforest. Roads progress two kilometers a day into previously remote areas of forest, exposing wildlife and indigenous people to a corrupt and greedy industry.

Karl Ammann / Overturned logging truck on wet road, Central Africa.

Karl Ammann / Ba'Aka pygmies carrying food to village along timber track. Logging roads, built to exploit remote forest areas, displace indigenous communities from their traditional forest lands and grant access t...

Karl Ammann / Logging truck loaded with timber on road through tropical rainforest, Central Africa. Overloaded trucks put strain on national road maintenance budgets, requiring subsidizing of logging with donor fun...

Igor Shpilenok / Snow covered logging road in Bryansky Les Zapovednik, Russia.

Gerry Ellis / Temperate rainforest clear cutting with logging road, Olympic National Forest, Washington

Mark Moffett / Patch of remnant rainforest surrounded by clearcut, Belo Horizonte, Atlantic Forest ecosystem, Brazil

Gerry Ellis / Logging road in lowland tropical rainforest across the broad flood plain of Aird River, Kikori Basin, Papua New Guinea

Gerry Ellis / New logging road in virgin lowland tropical rainforest, east of Aird River Delta, Kikori Basin, Papua New Guinea

Gerry Ellis / Loggers clear cutting temperate rainforest, Pacific coast, North America