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tropical forests and deforestation

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Deforestation resulting from phosphate mining, Nauru.

deforestation in Australia

Satellite image of Carajás mining area, 1986Deforestation is evident in Brazil's Carajás region in the state of Pará, by comparing images from 1986 and 1992. Cleared land appears bluish green.

Learn how the Brazilian government incentivized forest clearing in the Amazon for beef production and ranching

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Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.

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Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.

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