Clearing primary rainforest
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Lacking more favorable alternatives, impoverished people are being pushed deeper into the forests to clear steeper slopes. With no road access into previously uncut forest, even large trees are burned on-site rather than being used for timber or firewood.
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Contents:
1.Large moth
2.Plateau village
3.Brickmaking
4.Clearing primary rainforest
5.Disappearing forest
6.Rainforest disappearance map
7.Air view of erosion
8.Red river (Betsiboka)
9.Roadside charcoal
10.Cissus takeover
11.Mananara River gallery forest
12.Poles from Ankarana
13.Galapagos tortoise
14.Reserves and vegetation map
15.Ranomafana entrance station
16.Masoala view
17.Black and White Ruffed Lemur
18.Black and White
Ruffed Lemur call
19.Madagascar Periwinkle
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