Paul Harris / 2020VISION / Young volunteer clearing scrub, RSPB Vange Marshes reserve, Basildon, Essex, England, UK, November 2011.

Paul Harris / 2020VISION / Young volunteers clearing scrub, RSPB Vange Marshes reserve, Basildon, Essex, England, UK, November 2011.

Paul Harris / 2020VISION / Young volunteers clearing scrub, RSPB Vange Marshes reserve, Basildon, Essex, England, UK, November 2011.

David Tipling / 2020VISION / Warden using chain saw to cut birch and clear it from area for heather regeneration, Minsmere RSPB Reserve, Sandlings heath, Suffolk, UK, February 2011, model released

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

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 / 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...

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

Paul Harris / 2020VISION / Children from St John and St Francis Church of England School helping with ground clearance at Westhay Nature Reserve, Somerset Levels, England, UK, June 2011. Model released. 2020VISION Book Plate.

Paul Harris / 2020VISION / Young volunteer clearing scrub, RSPB Vange Marshes reserve, Basildon, Essex, England, UK, November 2011. Model released.

Paul Harris / 2020VISION / Young volunteers clearing scrub, RSPB Vange Marshes reserve, Basildon, Essex, England, UK, November 2011. Model released.

Paul Harris / 2020VISION / Young volunteers clearing scrub, RSPB Vange Marshes reserve, Basildon, Essex, England, UK, November 2011. Model released.

Paul Harris / 2020VISION / Young volunteers clearing scrub, RSPB Vange Marshes reserve, Basildon, Essex, England, UK, November 2011. Model released.

Paul Harris / 2020VISION / Young volunteer clearing scrub at the RSPB Vange Marsh, Basildon, Essex, England, UK, November. Model released. 2020VISION Book Plate.

Paul Harris / 2020VISION / Young volunteers clearing scrub at the RSPB Vange Marsh, Basildon, Essex, England, UK, November. Model released. 2020VISION Book Plate.

David Woodfall / Destruction of countryside in green belt close to market town, for building of houses in flood plain, future Glasdir estate, Ruthin, Vale of Clwyd, Denbighshire, Wales, UK. This is a highlighted area...

David Woodfall / Destruction of countryside in green belt close to market town, for building of houses in flood plain, future Glasdir estate, Ruthin, Vale of Clwyd, Denbighshire, Wales, UK. This is a highlighted area...

David Woodfall / Destruction of countryside in green belt close to market town, for building of houses in flood plain, future Glasdir estate, Ruthin, Vale of Clwyd, Denbighshire, Wales, UK. This is a highlighted area...

David Woodfall / Destruction of countryside in green belt close to market town, for building of houses in flood plain, future Glasdir estate, Ruthin, Vale of Clwyd, Denbighshire, Wales, UK. This is a highlighted area...

David Woodfall / Destruction of countryside in green belt close to market town, for building of houses in flood plain, Vale of Clwyd, Denbighshire, Wales, UK. This is a highlighted areas in UK at risk of flooding and...

Guy Edwardes / 2020VISION / Volunteers help with Scrub clearance at Street Heath SWT reserve, Somerset Levels, Somerset, England, UK, April 2011

Guy Edwardes / 2020VISION / Volunteers help with Scrub clearance at Street Heath SWT reserve, Somerset Levels, Somerset, England, UK, April 2011

Guy Edwardes / 2020VISION / Volunteers help with Scrub clearance at Street Heath SWT reserve, Somerset Levels, Somerset, England, UK, April 2011

Guy Edwardes / 2020VISION / Volunteers help with Scrub clearance at Street Heath SWT reserve, Somerset Levels, Somerset, England, UK, April 2011

Guy Edwardes / 2020VISION / Volunteers help with Scrub clearance at Street Heath SWT reserve, Somerset Levels, Somerset, England, UK, April 2011

David Tipling / 2020VISION / Sean Moore member of work party clearing gorse for heathland regeneration on Minsmere RSPB Reserve, Suffolk Sandlings, UK, February 2011, model released

David Tipling / 2020VISION / Tools and tree trunk cleared for heath regeneration, Minsmere RSPB Reserve, Sandlings heath, Suffolk, UK, February 2011

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

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

Jason Smalley / Heysham Moss nature reserve after woodland clearance, Lancashire, UK

Jason Smalley / Heysham Moss nature reserve after woodland clearance, Lancashire, UK

Tony Heald / Bamboo clearance to enable other cultivation, Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo, September 2008

Tony Heald / Bamboo clearance to enable other cultivation, Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo, September 2008

Gary K. Smith / Conifer clearance in the New Forest, Hampshire, UK

Gary K. Smith / Birch clearance in wet woodland to improve wetland habitat, Norfolk, UK, April

Tim Edwards / Forestry clearance (planted trees) Central Tasmania, Australia

WILLIAM OSBORN / Clydesdale horses at work in woodland at Ravensroost Nature Reserve, Wiltshire, UK

WILLIAM OSBORN / Clydesdale horses at work in woodland at Ravensroost Nature Reserve, Wiltshire, UK

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.

Claudio Velasquez / Boundary between cleared land and tropical forest, Bwindi Forest NP, Uganda

Martin Dohrn / Aerial view of recent rainforest deforestation, recently cleared for agriculture, Amazon Brazil, South America

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

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

John Downer / Aerial view of deforestation of tropical rainforest for agriculture, Papua New Guinea

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

Jabruson / Aerial view of Rwindi river through Virunga NP, showing recent deforestation, Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire

Jabruson / Aerial view of Ishasha river near the former Zaire - Uganda border, Virunga NP, Democratic Republic of Congo

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

Staffan Widstrand / Aerial view over the tropical rainforest showing deforestation as a result of industrial logging, Manaus, Brazil, South America

Mike Potts / Rainforest clearance for road building, Okinawa, Southern Japan. Note - habitat of Pryors woodpecker 2001

Robin Chittenden / Wood and scrub clearance to conserve woodland. Norfolk, UK

Mike Wilkes / Woodland clearance, Worcestershire, UK

Daniel Gomez / Forest destruction. Burnt for gravel excavation. Sultanate of Brunei.

Daniel Gomez / Forest clearance for a housing development. Sultanate of Brunei.

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

Tui De Roy / Fragmented by clearance for agriculture, Rio de Janeiro state, Atlantic Forest, Brazil

Jabruson / Aerial view of rainforest clearance for agriculture, Epulu Ituri Reserve, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central Africa

MORLEY READ / Rainforest clearance for oil facility. Ecuador, South America

Jabruson / Gishwati forest reserve cleared for agriculture after civil war, Ruheneri district, Rwanda 2003

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

Juergen Freund / Demonstration against forest clearance on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

MORLEY READ / Forest clearance for exploratory oil well in Amazonian Ecuador

Jabruson / Sustainable timber industry clearance of coniferous forest trees. Cape Province, S Africa

Tim Edwards / Controlled Bush fire, mosaic burning, Kakadu NP, Northern Territory, Australia 1994