Figure 2.
Deforestation for slash-and-burn agriculture (left) and dwellings surrounded by rain forest (right) in the agricultural settlement of Remansinho, near Acrelândia, Acre, northwestern Brazil (Pictures by Marcelo U. Ferreira).
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