Joris van Alphen / Aerial view of clearing with felled logs in Bialowieza Forest UNESCO World Heritage Site, Poland. Highly commended in the Wildlife Photojournalism Category of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awa...

Lucas Bustamante / Aerial view of cut tree trunks in deforested Ecuadorian Choco, Esmeraldas, Ecuador. 25 tree species, many of them threatened, are involved.

Lucas Bustamante / Palm oil crops and deforestation in the Ecuadorian Choco, Esmeraldas, Ecuador

Lucas Bustamante / Palm oil crops and deforestation in the Ecuadorian Choco Esmeraldas, Ecuador

Pal Hermansen / Logged forest, aerial view. Akershus, Norway. November 2018.

Ashley Cooper / Boreal forest trees clear felled to make way for a new tar sands mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. August 2012

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Loss of topsoil in deforested land, Central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. June 2010.

David Noton / Slash and burn deforestation near Vang Vieng, Laos, March 2009.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Graphite mine near the Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, one of the environmental problems affecting the ecosystem of the rainforest. Madagascar, March 2005.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Cut trees in the Waka forest, Gabon, Central Africa, 2008-2009.

Jabruson / African rainforest clearance - men sawing hardwood tree trunks to make planks. South of Mbomo, Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of Congo, May 2005.

Jabruson / African rainforest clearance, men sawing hardwood tree trunks to make planks. South of Mbomo, Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of Congo, May 2005.

Jabruson / African rainforest clearance - men sawing hardwood tree trunks to make planks. South of Mbomo, Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of Congo, May 2005.

Jabruson / African rainforest clearance - man with chainsaw cutting hardwood tree felled for timber. South of Mbomo, Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of Congo, May 2005.

Jabruson / African Rainforest clearance - hardwood tree felled for timber exploitation. South of Mbomo, Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of Congo.

Jabruson / African Rainforest clearance - hardwood tree felled for timber exploitation. South of Mbomo, Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of Congo, May 2005.

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Roosevelt elk (Cervus elaphus roosevelti) in a cut forest. East coast, near Telegraph Cove, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, July.

Tim Laman / Logging road and forest destruction in pristine area of Waigeo Island, West Papua, New Guinea

Jabruson / Common House Martin (Delichon urbicum) flying above pile of hardwood timber logs in storage depot. Lope National Park, Libreville, Gabon.

Kirkendall-Spring / Clearcut forest in the Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. Washington, USA, August 2011.

Jabruson / Boy walking on large pile of hardwood logs ready for loading onto railway trucks that will collect timber from lumber yard located inside the Lope National Park. Onward shipment via sea takes place f...

Jabruson / Large-scale hardwood timber extraction with trucks carrying hardwood timber stop on the route from near the Lope National Park to Libreville, Gabon, 2009. No release available.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Machinery that cuts, peels and calculates the volume of the wood, cutting eucalyptus trees in the municipality of Linhares, Esparito Santo State, Eastren Brazil, January 2012. No release available.

Christophe Courteau / Timber washed onto the shore by the strong arctic currents. There are no trees on Spitzbergen, all the wood comes from the Siberian Coast, Poolepynten, Spitzbergen, Svalbard, Norway, July 2011

Mark Hamblin / 2020VISION / Area of felled non-native plantation as part of habitat management to restore bog peatland, Flow Country, Sutherland, Highland, Scotland, UK, July 2011

Juergen Freund / A barge full of logs. Illegal timber is brought into Sarawak from Kalimantan by both land and sea. Illegal logging in protected areas involves a complex network of people from all walks of life. The i...

Claudio Contreras / Fast flowing silted river, deforestation, Port-a-Piment, Haiti, October 2010

Andy Rouse / Harvested potatoes in Virunga Volcanoes National Park with agricultural land behind and forest beyond where the mountain gorillas live, Rwanda, April 2010. Encroachment of the human population on habi...

Pete Oxford / Aerial view of Alluvial Gold Mine in the rainforest, Guyana , December 2009

Pete Oxford / Aerial view of Alluvial Gold Mine in the rainforest, Guyana, December 2009

Gerrit Vyn / Clearing / timber removal in the Olympic National Forest, Washington, USA, March 2010

Mark Bowler / Aerial view of cloud forest cleared for pasture near to populations of Yellow-tailed woolly monkeys, Alto Mayo, Amazonas, Peru, June 2008

Mark Bowler / Aerial view of rainforest clearance for agriculture, small-scale deforestation slash and burn, Amazon rainforest, Peru

Wild Wonders of Europe / López / Aerial view of Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) destruction in a forest, Kemeri National Park, Latvia, June 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / López / Trees felled by Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber) Moricsala Strict Nature Reserve, Moricsala Island, Lake Usma, Latvia, June 2009

Tim Laman / Aerial view of river, mangrove forest and shrimp ponds in the Sarawak Mangrove Reserve area, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia, June 2006

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Aerial view of deforestated area of Siberian forest, Oulanka, Finland, September 2008

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Aerial view of deforestated area of Siberian forest, Oulanka, Finland, September 2008

Juan Carlos Munoz / Aerial view of palm oil plantation on deforested land, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia 2007

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Aerial view of Soya bean plantations created from deforestation of rainforest, near Vilhena town, Southeastern Rond?? State, Western Brazil.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Aerial view of cattle pasture land created from tropical rainforest, Western Mato Grosso State, Western Brazil.

Karl Ammann / Waste timber, Central African rainforest. On average, less than half of the wood cut is used.