Joel Sartore Joel Sartore

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker

Keyword: Logging

Photo: Rafts made of mahogany are smuggled out of Madidi National Park on the Tuichi River (Bolivia.) Groups like EcoBolivia work to educate the locals on the real value of their land in hopes of preventing logging and deforestation.

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Rafts made of mahogany are smuggled out of Madidi National Park on the Tuichi River (Bolivia.) Groups like EcoBolivia work to educate the locals on the real value of their land in hopes of preventing logging and deforestation.

Photo: Rafts made of mahogany are smuggled out of Madidi National Park on the Tuichi River (Bolivia.) Groups like EcoBolivia work to educate the locals on the real value of their land in hopes of preventing logging and deforestation.

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Rafts made of mahogany are smuggled out of Madidi National Park on the Tuichi River (Bolivia.) Groups like EcoBolivia work to educate the locals on the real value of their land in hopes of preventing logging and deforestation.

Photo: Logs from old growth forest on Vancouver Island, BC, are prepared and loaded for transport.

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Logs from old growth forest on Vancouver Island, BC, are prepared and loaded for transport.

Photo: Helicopters are used to selectively log old-growth forest along Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada.)

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Helicopters are used to selectively log old-growth forest along Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada.)

Photo: Helicopters are used to selectively log old-growth forest along Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada.)

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Helicopters are used to selectively log old-growth forest along Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada.)

Photo: Helicopters are used to selectively log old-growth forest along Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada.)

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Helicopters are used to selectively log old-growth forest along Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada.)

Photo: Helicopters are used to selectively log old-growth forest along Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada.)

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Helicopters are used to selectively log old-growth forest along Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada.)

Photo: Piquia fruit (a forest product), waiting to go to market inBrazil.

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Piquia fruit (a forest product), waiting to go to market inBrazil.

Photo: A Brazilian boy paddles a canoe to market.

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A Brazilian boy paddles a canoe to market. His family saved their forest by harvesting and selling its produce.

Photo: Helicopters are used to selectively log old-growth forest along Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada.)

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Helicopters are used to selectively log old-growth forest along Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada.)

Photo: Osage orange tree stumps on a farmstead being cleared for development in Lincoln, NE.

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Osage orange tree stumps on a farmstead being cleared for development in Lincoln, NE.

Photo: Osage orange tree stumps on a farmstead being cleared for development in Lincoln, NE.

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Osage orange tree stumps on a farmstead being cleared for development in Lincoln, NE.

Photo: Casava plant roots are processed into farinha, a staple in the Amazonian diet.

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Casava plant roots are processed into farinha, a staple in the Amazonian diet. Cassava is often planted in clear-cut areas, and its processing is far more labor-intensive than harvesting forest fruits.

Photo: Casava plant roots are processed into farinha, a staple in the Amazonian diet.

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Casava plant roots are processed into farinha, a staple in the Amazonian diet. Cassava is often planted in clear-cut areas, and its processing is far more labor-intensive than harvesting forest fruits.

Photo: Desertification and black vultures are all that remain in aclear cut area of the Brazilian Amazon.

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Desertification and black vultures are all that remain in aclear cut area of the Brazilian Amazon. This spot used to be a thriving rainforest.

Photo: Cattle graze in a clear-cut area of the Brazilian Amazon's rain forest.

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Cattle graze in a clear-cut area of the Brazilian Amazon’s rain forest.

Photo: Grasshoppers flock to a clearcut section of rain forest in the Brazilian Amazon.

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Grasshoppers flock to a clearcut section of rain forest in the Brazilian Amazon.

Photo: A virgin rainforest is clear-cut, and cassava is planted inthe poor soil.

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A virgin rainforest is clear-cut, and cassava is planted inthe poor soil. (Brazilian Amazon.)

Photo: Mountains of sawdust outside a sawmill in Paragominas, Brazil in the Brazilian Amazon.

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Mountains of sawdust outside a sawmill in Paragominas, Brazil in the Brazilian Amazon.

Photo: Mountains of sawdust outside a sawmill in Paragominas, Brazil along the Brazilian Amazon.

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Mountains of sawdust outside a sawmill in Paragominas, Brazil along the Brazilian Amazon.

Photo: Old growth forest logs stacked and waiting for sale along the Capim River, a tributary of the Brazilian Amazon.

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Old growth forest logs stacked and waiting for sale along the Capim River, a tributary of the Brazilian Amazon.

Photo: Old growth forest logs stacked and waiting for sale along the Capim River, a tributary of the Brazilian Amazon.

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Old growth forest logs stacked and waiting for sale along the Capim River, a tributary of the Brazilian Amazon.

Photo: Old growth forest logs stacked and waiting for sale along the Capim River, a tributary of the Brazilian Amazon.

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Old growth forest logs stacked and waiting for sale along the Capim River, a tributary of the Brazilian Amazon.

Photo: Cutting down old-growth osage orange trees in Nebraska.

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Cutting down old-growth osage orange trees in Nebraska.

Photo: Cutting down old-growth osage orange trees in Nebraska.

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Cutting down old-growth osage orange trees in Nebraska.

Photo: Cutting down old-growth osage orange trees in Nebraska.

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Cutting down old-growth osage orange trees in Nebraska.

Photo: Cutting down old-growth osage orange trees in Nebraska.

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Cutting down old-growth osage orange trees in Nebraska.

Photo: Cutting down old-growth osage orange trees in Nebraska.

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Cutting down old-growth osage orange trees in Nebraska.

Photo: Cutting down old-growth osage orange trees in Nebraska.

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Cutting down old-growth osage orange trees in Nebraska.

Photo: Cutting down old-growth osage orange trees in Nebraska.

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Cutting down old-growth osage orange trees in Nebraska.

Photo: Clear-cutting in the Olympic National Forest, Washington.

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Clear-cutting in the Olympic National Forest, Washington.

Photo: Clear-cutting in the Olympic National Forest, Washington.

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Clear-cutting in the Olympic National Forest, Washington.

Photo: Clear-cutting in the Olympic National Forest, Washington.

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Clear-cutting in the Olympic National Forest, Washington.

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