Deforestation and Agricultural Practices

Images depicting individuals engaged in deforestation and agricultural activities within tropical rainforests, showcasing lush greenery and environmental challenges.

Indonesia, Sumatra, Gunung Leuser National Park, UNESCO World Heritage site, and Biosphere Reserve. (MR)

Indonesia, Sumatra, Gunung Leuser National Park, UNESCO World Heritage site, and Biosphere Reserve. (MR)

Ngongo (Megaphrynium macrostachyum) leaves used by Baka boy to build a Mongolu, a hut made from sticks and leaves, Cameroon

Deforestation of Equatorial rainforest, Irian Jaya, West New Guinea, Papua New Guinea.

Cutting down a palm tree to collect larva to eat, Amazon, Ecuador, South America

VIETNAM - MEKONG DELTA - THE SUSPENSION OF THE NINE DRAGONS. Portrait of the Mekong Delta region in Vietnam and many environmental issues.VIETNAM - DELTA DU MÉKONG - LE SURSIS DES NEUF DRAGONS. Portrait de la région du Delta du Mekong au Vietnam et des nombreuses problématiques environnementales.

Sustainable logging operation, Iwokrama Rainforest Reserve, Guyana

YANOMAMI AMERINDIANS, VENEZUELA AMAZONAS. Serra Parima, Orinoco river basin. . The Yanomami continue to live as tribal farmers, practising an ecologically sound form of shifting cultivation, supplementing thier diet with fishing and hunting. They live in one of the most inaccessible regions of the Amazon, and of all the Amerindian tribes, the Yanomami have the least exposure to the modern world. Their future may now be threatened by diseases spread by illegal Brazilian gold miners.

Banana Plantation. Blue plastic coverings to prevent UV damage. Ramsgate. KwaZulu Natal South Coast.Natal South Africa

Colombia, North West Amazon, Tukano Indigenous People, Venancio One Of Ignacio'S Sons Planting Manioc Cuttings In The Family Chagra Shifting Agriculture Cultivation Plot. Tukano Makuna Indian North Western Amazonia Cassava American Colombian Columbia Hispanic Indegent Latin America Latino Male Men Guy South America Tukano

LAO - LE RYTHME DES EAUXAu Nord du Laos, enclavée dans les montagnes, la paisible cité de Luang Prabang prospère depuis des siècles au sein de la péninsule formée par la confluence du fleuve Mékong et de la rivière Nam Khan. Avant dêtre devancée par Vientiane, elle fut la capitale du puissant Royaume de Lane Xang (Royaume du Million dEléphants). Son architecture coloniale et ses majestueux temples lui valent dêtre inscrite au patrimoine mondiale de lUNESCO depuis 1995.La légende raconte que Bouddha y serait venu au cours de lun de ses voyages et quil a souri. Aujourdhui, la ville est un haut lieu bouddhique de lAsie du Sud-Est. Les jeunes y viennent des campagnes alentours pour faire une retraite monastique et ainsi recevoir une éducation gratuite.A loccasion de Pi Mai, la Fête de l'Eau, Luang Prabang se réveille. Correspondant au Nouvel An lao et bouddhique, on fête le retour de la saison des pluies et la renaissance de la nature. Durant les plusieurs jours de festivités,

Collector latex Reserve extraction Seringal CahoeiraBrazil

Balata or Bullet Wood Tree being bled for natural latex Katoka Rupununi, Guyana.

Palmito heart of palm, Amazon, Ecuador, South America

stump and log from illegal cutting of rosewood trees inside marojejy national park, madagascar

Tapping a rubber tree

VIETNAM - MEKONG DELTA - THE SUSPENSION OF THE NINE DRAGONS. Portrait of the Mekong Delta region in Vietnam and many environmental issues.VIETNAM - DELTA DU MÉKONG - LE SURSIS DES NEUF DRAGONS. Portrait de la région du Delta du Mekong au Vietnam et des nombreuses problématiques environnementales.

Bleeding from the trunk of Hevea Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve[AT

Picking Coca Leaves used in the making of cocaine, Colombia.

Acting Secretary P. Lynn Scarlett and other Interior officials and staff joining Take Pride in America volunteers for cleanup event, along the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers, organized by the environmental action group, Living Lands and Waters

Cuba : The valley of traditional and organic farming. Vinales valley is still preserve ecologically and is famous for the wooded hills and traditional and organic agriculture. Cuba: La vallée de lagriculture traditionnelle et biologique. La vallée de Vinales est encore préserver écologiquement et est très connue pour les mogotes ainsi lagriculture traditionnelle et biologique.

Mexico, Chiapas, Lacandon Jungle. Tzeltal Indian adds organic fertilizer to his shade-grown coffee

Small trees planted by tourists in the tree planting program to regenerate the rainforest (secondary) at Samboja near Balikpapan, on Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Men clearing forestland.

recolectotes de cardamomo,La Taña, zona Reyna, departamento de Uspantan,Guatemala, Central America.

Indonesia, Central Sulawesi, Wana Forest People in Morowali Strict Nature Reserve. UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Siskiyou National Forest

SLASH AND BURN, BRAZIL. Amazon. Vicinity Rio Branco. Migrant slash and burn cultivators cutting down trees before burning them. . The tree ash fertilizes the soil for only a few years.

Reforestation with coffee plants in Brazil Amazon

Tech Sgt. Anthony Cathcart, 554th Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers Airman, clears up green waste at the Thousand Steps trail in Mangilao, Guam, Oct. 29, 2022. This volunteer event was planned by Cathcart's daughter as part of her Eagle Project. She is part of Troop 1401 Boy Scouts of America based on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.

This worker makes an impact on the Brazilian Pepper plant. It is an exotic invasive species which overtakes native plants to the Florida gulf coast and elsewhere. Subjects: Berries; Biological control; Coastal environments; Coastal restoration; Ecosystem recovery; Environmental quality; Habitat fragmentation; Habitat restoration; Invasive species; Islands; Vegetation; Wildlife refuges; Work of the Service. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: J.N. 'DING' DARLING NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.

Working in the chakra garden, Amazon, Ecuador, South America

Jono Bateman of the Australian Koala Foundation planting tree for koala habitat, Quinlans Property, Queensland, Australia

Roasting aruana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum) on fire. To be served for lunch for workers and family members planting bitter manioc. Dona Dica, 66 yrs, is wearing a hat fashioned from fronds of carnauba (Copernicia cerifera) palm. Igarape Ubim, Lago Amana, Amazonas, Brazil, 9-19-12

Poacher trap in tropical montane forest, Nyungwe Forest N.P., Albertine Rift, Rwanda, october

Jono Bateman of the Australian Koala Foundation planting tree for koala habitat, Quinlans Property, Queensland, Australia

South America, Peru, Amazon River. Roof thatcher (Editorial Usage Only)

RUBBER TAPPING, INDONESIA. .

Amazon National Park, Peru. Tour guide demonstrating what a termite nest looks like when the external part is scraped. (Editorial Use Only)

Ecuador, Amazon Rainforest, Wakewe, Huaorani Tribe. Makeshift toilet at eco-tourism campsite along the Amazon River tributaries.

Damaged banana plantation, Mpumalanga, South Africa.

Cutting down a forest in Equatorial Ayous Cameroon

Indonesia, Central Sulawesi, Wana Forest People in Morowali Strict Nature Reserve. UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Farmer maintaining irrigation ditches Cambodia

FRA - BRITTANY - AN AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY IN CENTRAL BRETAGNEIn the remote countryside of central Brittany, at the end of a road that the GPS has difficulty pointing out, one ends up reaching the place called Kerlanic, called by its residents "Oasis Kerlanic". He was nicknamed that because, for someone who tries to escape the frenzy of our society, it is as if he were in the desert and found, in the middle of nowhere, an oasis.It is a place where we live in autonomy and in harmony with nature, a place where everyone is welcome and who preaches an alternative lifestyle.FRA - BRETAGNE - UNE COMMUNAUTÉ AUTONOME EN CENTRE BRETAGNEDans la campagne reculée du Centre Bretagne, au bout dune route que le GPS peine à indiquer, on finit par atteindre le lieu-dit Kerlanic, appelé par ses résidents « Oasis Kerlanic ». Il a été surnommé comme cela car, pour quelquun qui cherche à fuir la frénésie de notre société, cest comme sil était dans le désert et quil trouvait, au milieu de nulle part,

Ngongo (Megaphrynium macrostachyum) leaves used by the Baka people to make a Mongolu, a hut made from sticks and leaves, Cameroon

recolectotes de cardamomo,La Taña, zona Reyna, departamento de Uspantan,Guatemala, Central America.

A young Caribbean worker seeks rain shelter under a palm tree

Mexico, Michoacan, Sierra Chincua Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary (aka Reserva de la Biosfera Mariposa Monarca) (MR) (Editorial Usage Only)

Pygmy Baaka population in southeastern Cameroon

Indonesia, Central Sulawesi, Wana Forest People in Morowali Strict Nature Reserve. UNESCO World Heritage Site.

niño recogiendo grava, Río Cuatro Chorros, Lancetillo - La Parroquia, Franja Transversal del Norte , departamento de Quiché, Guatemala.

Los Llanos.Masaguaral. Estado de Apure.Estado de Bolivar. Venezuela.

Dani Stamm prepares earth oven, Baliem Valley, West Papua, Indonesia, Asia

A U.S. Marine Corps volunteer helps plant native trees at the Island Girl Power facility in Dededo, Guam, June 5, 2022. Island Girl Power is a non-profit organization that provides prevention and enrichment programs to young girls and teens in an environment that is safe, empowering and positive.

Fish and Wildlife Service employee with axe, chopping at melaleuca tree trunk in refuge invasive species eradication program. Subjects: Biological control; Employees (USFWS); Environmental quality; Equipment; Habitat conservation; Habitat restoration; Invasive species; Maintenance; Plants; Refuges; Wildlife refuges. Location: Florida. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: ARTHUR R. MARSHALL LOXAHATCHEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE. Collection: Wildlife Refuges.

Rescue man buried dead body, Cyclone in Orissa, India November 1999 Copyright: xDinodiaxPhotox

VIETNAM - MEKONG DELTA - THE SUSPENSION OF THE NINE DRAGONS. Portrait of the Mekong Delta region in Vietnam and many environmental issues.VIETNAM - DELTA DU MÉKONG - LE SURSIS DES NEUF DRAGONS. Portrait de la région du Delta du Mekong au Vietnam et des nombreuses problématiques environnementales.

Oilpalm plantation with working children. Sabah - Borneo - Malaysia.

Peanut plants and house Gangga Lombok Indonesia

Transporting Coca leaves, Colombia.

KEKAHA, Hawaii (Feb. 5, 2024) Kauai Mayor Derek Kawakami places a lei on the Lua Kupapau O Nohili (crypt) during an installation tour on Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Barking Sands, Kekaha, Hawaii. During the tour, members of PMRF showed the visitors multiple locations on the installation and talked about PMRFs cultural, environmental and community impact on Kauai. PMRF is the world's largest instrumented multi-domain range, capable of supportingsurface, subsurface, air, and space operations simultaneously. Navy

Smallholder watering and covering vegetables against solar radiation, employment initiative for alcoholics, Crato, state of Pernambuco, Brazil, South America

FRA - BRITTANY - AN AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY IN CENTRAL BRETAGNEIn the remote countryside of central Brittany, at the end of a road that the GPS has difficulty pointing out, one ends up reaching the place called Kerlanic, called by its residents "Oasis Kerlanic". He was nicknamed that because, for someone who tries to escape the frenzy of our society, it is as if he were in the desert and found, in the middle of nowhere, an oasis.It is a place where we live in autonomy and in harmony with nature, a place where everyone is welcome and who preaches an alternative lifestyle.FRA - BRETAGNE - UNE COMMUNAUTÉ AUTONOME EN CENTRE BRETAGNEDans la campagne reculée du Centre Bretagne, au bout dune route que le GPS peine à indiquer, on finit par atteindre le lieu-dit Kerlanic, appelé par ses résidents « Oasis Kerlanic ». Il a été surnommé comme cela car, pour quelquun qui cherche à fuir la frénésie de notre société, cest comme sil était dans le désert et quil trouvait, au milieu de nulle part,

Making palm wine in the jungle

KHM - SOCIÉTÉ - TOURISME AUX TEMPLES DE ANGKORAvant de devenir une attraction touristique, la cité dAngkor fut la capitale de lempire Khmer du IXème au XVème siècle. A son apogée, elle comptait un million dhabitant. Btie sur un système hydraulique unique, cest lorsque la cité perd le contrôle de leau que la civilisation connu son déclin.Même si des explorateurs lavait déjà remarquée, les Français revendique en 1860 la « découverte dAngkor », et cela connait un retentissement mondial.Aujourdhui, la beauté légendaire du site attire deux millions de visiteurs par an et ça ne cesse daugmenter. Ce symbole de la civilisation Khmer est omniprésent au Cambodge, drapeau du pays, bières nationales, enseignes, paquets de cigarette.La cité est devenue un véritable parc dattraction ou les rites ancestraux ne servent plus quà donné du contenu aux selfies.KHM - SOCIETY - TOURISM AT THE TEMPLES OF ANGKORBefore becoming a tourist attraction, the city of Angkor was the capital of the K

Liberia recovers from decades of civil war.

HABITAT DESTRUCTION, INDONESIA. Sumatra, Nr Bukit Tigapuluh. Man squatting on tree stump surveying burning jungle. . This area of rainforest has been used by generations for hunting and gathering medicinal plants.

Palm oil and worker. Palm oil worker spraying herbicides at plantation ,model released, Symbolfoto Copyright: xZoonar.com/szefeix 12236136 ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released

A farmer standing with unripe bananas in the plantation field destroyed by whirl wind at Sirumugai, Tamil Nadu, South India, India, Asia

Maryland Zoo horticulturist Isaiah McBryde and Navy Chief Dana Alexander dispose of an invasive vegetation as part of a community relations event during Maryland Fleet Week & Flyover Baltimore, Sept. 8, 2022. Fleet Week is an annual public event that provides the opportunity for the sea services to engage with each other and civilians. More than 2,300 services members are participating, engaging and assisting with ship tours, live bands and static equipment displays.

People pouring Milky latex extracted from rubber tree trunk in bucket

Anti-poaching snare removal team member, Godfrey Nyesiga, noting location of illegally cut wood, Kibale National Park, western Uganda

Road construction caused a landslide that wiped out a frog habitat; Limon, Ecuador

Dani Stamm heats stones for an earth oven, Baliem Valley, West Papua, Indonesia, Asia

rubber tree Tapping latex from a rubber tree Hevea Brasiliensis. Kanchanaburi, Thailand. Copyright: xZoonar.com/Mr.xKidsadaxManchindax 10084155

Salfi tree produces milky liquid, bastar, chhattisgarh, india, asia Copyright: xHarixMahidhar/DinodiaxPhotox

Young people planting trees at a reforestation project, Mochuelo Alto, Bogota, Colombia, South America

French Guyane: French political prisonier Jail on tropical devils island

Caribbean - Trinidad - Birders near Nariva Swamp area on east side of island. (Editorial Usage Only)

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Chiquitana women collecting eggs of Amazonian River Turtle

KHM - SOCIÉTÉ - TOURISME AUX TEMPLES DE ANGKORAvant de devenir une attraction touristique, la cité dAngkor fut la capitale de lempire Khmer du IXème au XVème siècle. A son apogée, elle comptait un million dhabitant. Btie sur un système hydraulique unique, cest lorsque la cité perd le contrôle de leau que la civilisation connu son déclin.Même si des explorateurs lavait déjà remarquée, les Français revendique en 1860 la « découverte dAngkor », et cela connait un retentissement mondial.Aujourdhui, la beauté légendaire du site attire deux millions de visiteurs par an et ça ne cesse daugmenter. Ce symbole de la civilisation Khmer est omniprésent au Cambodge, drapeau du pays, bières nationales, enseignes, paquets de cigarette.La cité est devenue un véritable parc dattraction ou les rites ancestraux ne servent plus quà donné du contenu aux selfies.KHM - SOCIETY - TOURISM AT THE TEMPLES OF ANGKORBefore becoming a tourist attraction, the city of Angkor was the capital of the K

Farmer aerating her vegetable patch with a hoe, municipality of Santa Anita de la Frontera, Chiquitania, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia, South America

Self-sufficient community in Central Brittany. Plelauff, July 2020.Communaute autosuffisante en Centre Bretagne. Plelauff, Juillet 2020.

AGRICULTURE, NIGERIA. Harvesting crops grown on deforested land by slash and burn agriculturalists. .

Pygmy boy of the Baka ethnic group teaching tree bark that they chew or drink as an infusion as a remedy for gastrointestinal problems. Small indigenous communities that cling to their past and continue to live in the equatorial forest of southeastern Cameroon (they are also found in the Congo, Central African Republic and Gabon). Most of their subsistence lies in hunting, fishing and gathering. Despite being semi-nomadic, the community where the images were taken, made up of 5 families (about 40 people), is settled in the Dja Reserve: commune of Somalomo, Biosphere Reserve since 1982 and World Heritage Site since 1987.

A loud mouth

Felling the tree India, Asia

Bark removal on uprooted baobab Madagascar

Cuba : The valley of traditional and organic farming. Vinales valley is still preserve ecologically and is famous for the wooded hills and traditional and organic agriculture. Cuba: La vallée de lagriculture traditionnelle et biologique. La vallée de Vinales est encore préserver écologiquement et est très connue pour les mogotes ainsi lagriculture traditionnelle et biologique.

221001-N-OT701-1030 JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM (Oct. 1, 2022) Members of the local community remove invasive plant species at the Loko Pa'aiau Fishpond. Sailors partnered with local community members to help restore the Loko Pa'aiau fishpond by removing invasive plant species and repairing the wall to the fishpond.

Ecoguard of Batéké Plateau NP drinking Gabon

Wood carried out of forest by mule, Intag Valley, northwest Ecuador

Tree cutter pruning of tree

Borneo Teak (Afzelia bijuga) seedling and conservation coordinator Ahmad Azhari at orangutan habitat restoration site, Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia

Indonesia, Central Sulawesi, Wana Forest People in Morowali Strict Nature Reserve. UNESCO World Heritage Site.

BROMELIAD, OKEFENOKEE NWR. Employees at national wildlife refuges work to maintain and preserve lands which provide virtually every type of habitat needed for the survival of fish and wildlife. Southern refuges, like Georgia's Okefenokee, include bayou. Subjects: Georgia; Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge; Resource management. . 1998 - 2011.

Drying beans, La Taña, Reyna area, Uspantan department, Guatemala, Central America.

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