Jabruson / Boy walking on large pile of hardwood logs ready for loading onto railway trucks that will collect timber from lumber yard located inside the Lope National Park. Onward shipment via sea takes place f...

Jabruson / Large-scale hardwood timber extraction with trucks carrying hardwood timber stop on the route from near the Lope National Park to Libreville, Gabon, 2009. No release available.

Andy Rouse / Harvested potatoes in Virunga Volcanoes National Park with agricultural land behind and forest beyond where the mountain gorillas live, Rwanda, April 2010. Encroachment of the human population on habi...

Pete Oxford / Aerial view of Alluvial Gold Mine in the rainforest, Guyana , December 2009

Pete Oxford / Aerial view of Alluvial Gold Mine in the rainforest, Guyana, December 2009

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

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

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Aerial view of cattle pasture land created from tropical rainforest, Western Mato Grosso State, Western Brazil.

MORLEY READ / Burning off gas beside pool of waste water, Shushufindi oil prodcution site, Ecuador

Martin Dohrn / Sunset in tropical rainforest after destruction by fire, Brazil

Karl Ammann / Waste timber, Central African rainforest. On average, less than half of the wood cut is used.

Karl Ammann / Tropical rainforest timber transported on logging trucks to the local seaport. Drivers are paid per trip and therefore have an incentive to ignore traffic and safety rules.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Transporting Mahogany tree {Swietenia macrophylla} timber by lorry, Maraba, Brazil

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Amazon upland rainforest destroyed by fire for agriculture, Para, Brazil

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Felling rainforest tree with axe, Mamiraua reserve, Amazonas, Brazil

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

Gerry Ellis / Clearing of tropical rainforest south of Lake Kutubu for Gobe oil camp, Papua New Guinea

Konrad Wothe / Slash and burn rainforest destruction, Madagascar

Staffan Widstrand / Road cutting through rainforest - opens up forest to exploitation. Manaus, Brazil.

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

Jabruson / Planks of hardwood trees taken from Bwindi National Park, Uganda

Jabruson / Lava flow destroying trees and vegetation. Kimanura volcano. Virunga NP, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Dario Novellino / Loggers rest on timber in the rainforest Sabah, Borneo Indonesia

Pete Oxford / Deforestation - smoke from fires in Amazon rainforest along river bank, Ecuador, South America

Neil Lucas / Lorry transporting timber logged from primary rainforest, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

Jabruson / Bambuti pygmies cutting forest tree Epulu rainforest, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Jabruson / Deforestation for fuel by Hutu refugees (900 tons wood per day). Virunga NP (Mikeno and Karisimbi volcanoes), Democratic Republic of Congo.

Daniel Gomez / Atlantic rainforest cleared for agriculture, Parana State, Brazil, South America

Karl Ammann / Deforestation -Timber float , Kutai river, Central Kalimantan, Borneo

Karl Ammann / Bringing out timber from Tanjung Puting NP, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia

Karl Ammann / Logging operations in Tanjung Puting NP, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia

Jabruson / Road construction through rainforest. Graders clear the surface to a newly constructed road as the rainy season breaks. Lope National Park to Libreville highway. Gabon, January 2009

Jabruson / Trucks used for large-scale hardwood timber extraction with hardwood logs being taken from lumber yard located inside the Lope National Park. Onward shipment via sea takes place from Libreville, Gabon...

Jabruson / Trucks used for large-scale hardwood timber extraction with hardwood logs being taken from lumber yard located inside the Lope National Park. Onward shipment via sea takes place from Libreville, Gabon...

Jabruson / Trucks used for large-scale hardwood timber extraction with hardwood logs being taken from lumber yard located inside the Lope National Park. Onward shipment via sea takes place from Libreville, Gabon...

Jabruson / Bulldozer used for large-scale hardwood timber extraction with hardwood logs being readied for loading onto railway trucks that will collect timber from lumber yard located inside the Lope National Pa...

Jabruson / Trucks used for large-scale hardwood timber extraction with hardwood logs being taken from lumber yard located inside the Lope National Park. Onward shipment via sea takes place from Libreville, Gabon...

Jabruson / Bulldozer used for large-scale hardwood timber extraction with hardwood logs being readied for loading onto railway trucks that will collect timber from lumber yard located inside the Lope National Pa...

Jabruson / Large-scale hardwood timber extraction with hardwood logs being readied for loading onto railway trucks that will collect timber from lumber yard located inside the Lope National Park. Onward shipment...

Jabruson / Women primarily control the sale of charcoal and wood in Sao Tome market, Sao Tome, Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, Gulf of Guinea. Lack of cooking fuels puts pressure on natural resourc...

Jabruson / Women selling wood for fuel in Sao Tome market, Sao Tome, Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, Gulf of Guinea. Lack of cooking fuels puts pressure on natural resources and much comes from woo...

Jabruson / Women primarily control the sale of charcoal in Sao Tome market, Sao Tome, Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, Gulf of Guinea. Lack of cooking fuels puts pressure on natural resources and mu...

Jabruson / Colour coding, markings and metal stays on hardwood timber tree trunk base. Large-scale hardwood timber extraction with hardwood logs marked-up and readied for loading onto railway trucks that will co...

Jabruson / Colour coding, markings and metal stays on hardwood timber tree trunk bases with new (Ipomoea spp) leaf growth over logs. Large-scale hardwood timber extraction in Gabon. 2009

Jabruson / Large-scale hardwood timber extraction with hardwood logs being readied for loading onto railway trucks that will collect timber from lumber yard located inside the Lope National Park. Onward shipment...

Jabruson / Large-scale hardwood timber extraction with hardwood logs being readied for loading onto railway trucks that will collect timber from lumber yard located inside the Lope National Park. Onward shipment...

Jabruson / Cyclist moves through lumber yard showing large-scale hardwood timber extraction with hardwood logs being readied for loading onto railway trucks that will collect timber from lumber yard located insi...

Jabruson / Large-scale hardwood timber extraction with hardwood logs being readied for loading onto railway trucks that will collect timber from lumber yard located inside the Lope National Park. Onward shipment...

Jabruson / Alequadio Toma holds a piece of freshly made charcoal. The fuel is being readied for collection after its manufacture near the Sao Nicolau Plantation - close to the Obo National Park and the Bom Suces...

Jabruson / Alequadio Toma & Liticia da Cruz prepare charcoal for collection after its manufacture near the Sao Nicolau Plantation - close to the Obo National Park and the Bom Sucesso Botanic Gardens, Sao Tome, D...

Jabruson / A young woman Liticia da Cruz collects newly made charcoal near the Sao Nicolau Plantation - close to the Obo National Park and the Bom Sucesso Botanic Gardens, Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Pri...

Jabruson / Firewood collection from Waza National Park. Inefficient monitoring and lack of controls allow enterprising merchants to remove and collect wood from the Waza National Park and surrounding hinterland....

Jabruson / Firewood collection from Waza National Park. Inefficient monitoring and lack of controls allow enterprising merchants to remove and collect wood from the Waza National Park and surrounding hinterland....

Jabruson / Large-scale hardwood timber extraction with trucks carrying hardwood timber stop on the route from near the Lope National Park to Libreville, Gabon. 2009

Jabruson / Forest clearance for agriculture, cabbage farming on the edge of the Obo National Park, near Bom Sucesso Botanic Gardens, Sao Tome, Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, Gulf of Guinea 2009

Jabruson / Forest clearance for agriculture, cabbage farming on the edge of the Obo National Park, near Bom Sucesso Botanic Gardens, Sao Tome, Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, Gulf of Guinea 2009

Jabruson / Forest clearance for agriculture with cabbage farming on the edge of the Obo National Park, near Bom Sucesso Botanic Gardens, Sao Tome, Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, Gulf of Guinea 200...

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...

Mark Carwardine / Aerial view of deforested hills, formerly tropical rainforest, on the east coast of Madagascar, October 2008

Mark Carwardine / Aerial view of clear-cut rainforest, Amazonia, Brazil

Mark Carwardine / Confiscated Chainsaws used by poachers to collect illegal timber, Preah Monivong Bokor National Park, Elephant Mountains, south-western Cambodia (formerly Kampuchea)

Christophe Courteau / Palm tree oil plantation, with palms imported from South Africa. Near the Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Malaysia. In the back-ground, the last remains of the pristine rainforest.

Christophe Courteau / Palm tree oil plantation, with palms imported from South Africa. Near the Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Malaysia. In the back-ground, the last remains of the pristine rainforest.

Christophe Courteau / Palm tree oil plantation, with palms imported from South Africa. Near the Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Malaysia. In the back-ground, the last remains of the pristine rainforest.

Christophe Courteau / Palm tree oil plantation, with palms imported from South Africa. Near the Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Malaysia. In back-ground, the last remains of the pristine rainforest.

Christophe Courteau / Palm tree oil plantation, with palms imported from South Africa. Near the Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Malaysia. In back-ground, the last remains of the pristine rainforest.

Will Watson / Clearance of coastal rainforest for subsistence agriculture, Manabi Province, Ecuador. February 2012.

Roland Seitre / Pineapple (Ananas comosus) plantation. Boca Tapada, Costa Rica, 2008.

Pete Oxford / Gas burn-off stations along Napo River, Amazon, Ecuador

David Woodfall / Children and adults taking part in tropical rainforest play as part of a Folk Festival, celebrating the life of a forest and its people, documenting the threat from loggers and its imminent destructio...

David Woodfall / Child dressed in a tiger costume taking part in tropical rainforest play as part of a Folk Festival, celebrating the life of a forest and its people, documenting the threat from loggers and its immine...

Christian Ziegler / Cloud forest contrasting with intense farming on slopes, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Sediment-loaded stream in deforested area, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

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

Kevin Schafer / Hunter smoking out cuscus possum in rainforest palm, 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

Christian Ziegler / Lowland tropical rainforest cleared for cattle farming, Soberania National Park, Panama

Mark Bowler / Deforestation and land clearance for grazing. Cloud forest, Alto Mayo, Amazonas, Peru - habitat of Yellow tailed-woolly monkey. June 2008.

Juergen Freund / Aerial view of agricultural landscape of Palawan which has resulted in deforestation of the lowland forest adding to siltation along the coast, Palawan, Philippines, April 2010.

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 showing slash and burned patches of barren land amidst other cultivated vegetation. Philippines, April 2010 . NOT AVAILABLE FOR MAGAZINE USE IN GERMAN-SPEAKING COUNTRIES UNTIL 1ST JULY 2...

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...

Murray Cooper / Palm plantation cutting through rainforest in the Amazon, Ecuador

Daniel Heuclin / Aerial view of construction of a road in primary forest. French Guyana, 2008.

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

Daniel Heuclin / Aerial view of road construction through a primary forest. French Guyana, August 2008.

Jouan & Rius / Timber stacked ready for transportation, logging in central Borneo, Sarawak, Malaysia

Jouan & Rius / Log rafts being pulled by boats on Rejang river, Borneo, Sarawak, Malaysia

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

Chien Lee / Lowland rainforest on hilly terrain is cleared and terraced for planting of oil palm, Keningau, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia