Logs cut in the Thuan Thien Hue region near the Laotian border.

Logs cut in the Thuan Thien Hue region near the Laotian border.

People walk over a bridge across a dried up river. Deforestation has led to the loss of up to three quarters of the islands permanent rivers in just 50 years.

Deforestation, due to logging but mainly to clear land for pasture for cattle, scars the rainforests of the Serrania de Chiribiquete National Park.

Deforestation, due to logging but mainly to clear land for pasture for cattle, scars the rainforests of the Serrania de Chiribiquete National Park.

Deforestation, due to logging but mainly to clear land for pasture for cattle, scars the rainforests of the Serrania de Chiribiquete National Park.

Deforestation, due to logging but mainly to clear land for pasture for cattle, scars the rainforests of the Serrania de Chiribiquete National Park.

Deforestation, due to logging but mainly to clear land for pasture for cattle, scars the rainforests of the Serrania de Chiribiquete National Park.

Deforestation, due to logging but mainly to clear land for pasture for cattle, scars the rainforests of the Serrania de Chiribiquete National Park.

Deforestation, due to logging but mainly to clear land for pasture for cattle, scars the rainforests of the Serrania de Chiribiquete National Park.

Deforestation, due to logging but mainly to clear land for pasture for cattle, scars the rainforests of the Serrania de Chiribiquete National Park.

Deforestation, due to logging but mainly to clear land for pasture for cattle, scars the rainforests of the Serrania de Chiribiquete National Park.

Deforestation, due to logging but mainly to clear land for pasture for cattle, scars the rainforests of the Serrania de Chiribiquete National Park.

Deforestation, due to logging but mainly to clear land for pasture for cattle, scars the rainforests of the Serrania de Chiribiquete National Park.

A reforestation project in Adda. Since independence in 1975 the Comoros has seen one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world, leaving it's river systems depleted and it's topsoil eroded, in...

A reforestation project in Adda. Since independence in 1975 the Comoros has seen one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world, leaving it's river systems depleted and it's topsoil eroded, in...

A reforestation project in Adda. Since independence in 1975 the Comoros has seen one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world, leaving it's river systems depleted and it's topsoil eroded, in...

A reforestation project in Adda. Since independence in 1975 the Comoros has seen one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world, leaving it's river systems depleted and it's topsoil eroded, in...

A reforestation project in Adda. Since independence in 1975 the Comoros has seen one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world, leaving it's river systems depleted and it's topsoil eroded, in...

A reforestation project in Adda. Since independence in 1975 the Comoros has seen one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world, leaving it's river systems depleted and it's topsoil eroded, in...

A reforestation project in Adda. Since independence in 1975 the Comoros has seen one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world, leaving it's river systems depleted and it's topsoil eroded, in...

A man carries a bundle of wood to an ylang ylang distillery on Anjouan, where deforestation has had a negative impact on farmland.

Construction machines prepare the ground for the 'Via Carpathia' expressway, a multi-lane road that will link the Baltic States, eastern Poland, Slovakia and Romania.

Construction machines prepare the ground for the 'Via Carpathia' expressway, a multi-lane road that will link the Baltic States, eastern Poland, Slovakia and Romania.

Construction machines prepare the ground for the 'Via Carpathia' expressway, a multi-lane road that will link the Baltic States, eastern Poland, Slovakia and Romania.

Forest land being cleared to make way for the construction of the 'Via Carpathia' expressway that will link the Baltic States, eastern Poland, Slovakia and Romania.

Forest land being cleared to make way for the construction of the 'Via Carpathia' expressway that will link the Baltic States, eastern Poland, Slovakia and Romania.

A woman and her children stand in a patch of forest that has been burned to make space for cultivation.

Juan Ixim (70), a Q'eqchi' Mayan fisherman, paddles his boat on Lake Izabal. Behind him, mining activity by CGN-Pronico has left deep scars on Sierra de Santa Cruz.

Juan Ixim (70), a Q'eqchi' Mayan fisherman, paddles his boat on Lake Izabal. Behind him, mining activity by CGN-Pronico has left deep scars on Sierra de Santa Cruz.

Juan Ixim (70), a Q'eqchi' Mayan fisherman, paddles his boat on Lake Izabal. Behind him, mining activity by CGN-Pronico has left deep scars on Sierra de Santa Cruz.

A fisherman, who prefers to remain anonymous due to fear of being criminalised, rides his boat at dawn on Lake Izabal.

A pick-up carries men hired to fell trees into one of the last areas of rainforest in western Ghana. Logging companies have been granted permits to remove certain trees from the forest for the Europea...

A felled tree in a cocoa plantation. Despite the fact that cocoa trees thrive better beneath the canopy of larger trees, some tree species spread diseases and fungi. The Ghanaian government and the co...

A felled tree in a cocoa plantation. Despite the fact that cocoa trees thrive better beneath the canopy of larger trees, some tree species spread diseases and fungi. The Ghanaian government and the co...

A truck carries logs from one of the last areas of rainforest in western Ghana where logging companies have been granted permits to remove certain trees to be sold on the European market. Despite stri...

Young man with chainsaw, hired to fell trees in one of the last areas of rainforest in western Ghana. Logging companies have been granted permits to remove certain trees from the forest for the Europe...

The stump of a felled tree in one of the last areas of rainforest in western Ghana. Logging companies have been granted permits to remove certain trees from the forest for the European market. Despite...

Women carrying wood in Virunga National Park. Deforestation often a result of the need for firewood for cooking is one of the biggest threats to the park.

High rise buildings and a lumber yard on the banks of the Congo River.

A day labourer unloading timber from a moored barge.

A cargo of lumber carried by barges moored in port while its captain sorts out paperwork.

A barge carrying a load of lumber sits stranded on the river bank after its engine failed. It will now sit in the shallows of the Congo River until a engineer can come to make repairs.

A palm oil mill surrounded by a vast plantation.

Saplings growing at an oil palm nursery.

Oil palms surround a road where a sign reads: 'Welcome to Sukau the Land of Biodiversity', as a lorry carrying palm oil passes along the road.

Illegal logging in the Buan Forest Reserve. The land is being cleared to establish a palm oil plantation.

Illegal logging in the Buan Forest Reserve. The land is being cleared to establish a palm oil plantation.

Illegal logging in the Buan Forest Reserve. The land is being cleared to establish a palm oil plantation.

Illegal logging in the Buan Forest Reserve. The land is being cleared to establish a palm oil plantation.

Illegal logging in the Buan Forest Reserve. The land is being cleared to establish a palm oil plantation.

A tractor carries a trailer full of palm oil fruits at the SG Krudda Estate which has 905 hectares land growing oil palms.

A tractor carries a trailer full of palm oil fruits at the SG Krudda Estate which has 905 hectares land growing oil palms.

A tractor carries a trailer full of palm oil fruits at the SG Krudda Estate which has 905 hectares land growing oil palms.

An oil palm mill surrounded by a plantation.

An oil palm mill surrounded by a plantation.

An oil palm planation off the Miri coastline.

Land cleared for oil palm at the 905 hectare SG Krudda Estate on the Malay Peninsula.

An oil palm plantation.

A worker on a palm oil plantation cuts the fruits from th etop of a tree using a long pole.

A saw mill processing timber that has been cleared from forests to make way for oil palm plantations.

Bahar Lani moves stems of palm oil fruit in a wheelbarrow at a plantation.

Ashwani Takwin uses a long pole with a sharp blade at its end to harvest palm oil fruits in a plantations.

Rain forest cleared or a palm oil plantation.

A palm oil plantation established on land where the rain forest has been cut down.

An oil palm planation off the Miri coastline.

An oil palm mill surrounded by a plantation.

A strip of original jungle grows alongside a river in the Niah oil palm plantation.

A wooden longhouse burning in an oil palm plantation in Rumah Majang Ringkai.

Suffering from severe diarrhoea due to lack of maternal care and cheap artificial milk-powders fed to it by the villagers who originally found her, the weakened 20-day-old calf Mi Chaw wanders around...

Mi Chaw, translates as 'Beautiful Girl', also called Mi Kaut-ya, translates as 'picked-up baby', a female baby elephant at the house of veterinarian Dr. Myo Min Aung of the Myanmar Timber Enterprise (...

Mahouts and vets try to keep the sick baby elephant Mi Chaw alive with intravenous drips and medications in her last hours at Thayatsan elephant camp. Just over three weeks earlier a group of bamboo c...

The wives of mahouts at Thayatsan Elephant Camp express their milk to feed the orphaned elephant calf Mi Chaw, who was suffering from severe diarrhoea after being feed powdered milk by the villagers w...

At Thayatsan elephant camp, Dr. Myo Min Aung, along with some helpful children, give tender care to a dying baby elephant, Mi Chaw, who has slowly weakened after suffering from severe diarrhoea. 23 da...

Mahouts digging a grave for the remains of baby elephant Mi Chaw in Thayatsan elephant camp. Despite the best efforts of the camp vet and the mahouts the baby elephant died due to malnourishment broug...

Suffering from severe diarrhoea after being abandoned by her mother and fed cheap artificial milk-powders by the villagers, the weakened 20-day-old orphaned calf Mi Chaw wanders around the house of ve...

The wives of mahouts at Thayatsan elephant camp express their breast milk to provide food for the orphaned and weakened elephant calf Mi Chaw who was abandoned by her mother. The calf has been sufferi...

Vet Dr. Myo Min Aung and local children carefor the dying baby elephant Mi Chaw who has been terminally sick and weakened after suffering from severe diarrhoea, at Thayatsan elephant camp. 23 days bef...

Mi Chaw (translates to 'beautiful girl') also called Mi Kaut-ya (translates to 'picked-up baby') a female baby elephant at the house of veterinarian Dr. Myo Min Aung of Myanmar timber enterprise in th...

Sitting by a stream, vet Dr. Myo Min Aung looks at the remaining bones of deceased baby elephant Mi Chaw which he excavated in order to keep a memory of her at his home, at Thayatsan elephants camp. A...

Vet Dr. Myo Min Aung and mahouts saying prayers with a Buddhist monk, in a ceremony organised by the vet to do good deeds for the deceased orphaned elephant Mi Chaw at the burial site for the baby ele...

Mahouts digging the buried remains of dead baby-elephant Mi Chaw in order for her guardian vet Dr. Myo Min Aung to restore and keep a memory, at Thayatsan elephant camp. Several months before, a group...

Suffering from severe diarrhea, the orphaned Mi Chaw attempts to climb into the house of vet Dr Myo Min Aung, who was looking after her . She can only take a few steps with the help of her new guardia...

A truck carries logs along a road at night.

Unofficial deforestation of privately owned land which nearby residents claim is for a soyabean plantation. The large demand of land for agricultural purposes is threatening the forest. Currently Para...

Flooding, caused by heavy rainfall, a result of the El Nino phenomenon, and massive deforestation for agribusiness and cattle ranching in northern regions. Over 90,000 people have fled the deluge and...

A view from Cerro Lambare, a hill in the capital, of houses flooded by the Paraguay River. The flooding has been caused by heavy rainfall, due to the El Nino phenomenon, and massive deforestation for...

Makeshift wooden houses, some provided by local authorities, some built by its residents, host people displaced by the flooding Paraguay River. The flooding has been caused by heavy rainfall, due to t...

Flooded buildings near the Paraguay River. The flooding has been caused by heavy rainfall, due to the El Nino phenomenon, and massive deforestation for agribusiness and cattle ranching in northern reg...

A group of women during a mass held at one of the numerous makeshift camps where people displaced by flooding are living. The flooding has been caused by heavy rainfall, due to the El Nino phenomenon...