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Satellite image of rain forest destruction »

Posted by: pagey 2 years, 11 months ago
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This is not a small region previewed here: this is millions of acres of trees that have been removed from the Amazonian rainforests and turned into houses and paper. The amount of devestation is so vast that you can easily see its extent from space. Scroll around and zoom in to see the scale of these logging operations.

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  • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)geographer47
    geographer47
    Jan. 20, 2007, 1:44 p.m.

    Great photo, pagey. That "fishbone" pattern is characteristic of rain forest destruction. It is most devastating because Amazonian rainforests do not renew themselves or restore themselves to the same species once logged. Rainforests have shallow soil which becomes depleted by logging. It's reduced fertility will not support new rainforest growth.

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