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Deforestation Follows a Road Through Ucayali

A remote oil and logging road first established in eastern Peru in the 1980s has become a hub for forest clearing.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Photo by William Villacorta/Upper Amazon Conservancy. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published October 25, 2022
Data acquired August 23, 2017 - August 21, 2022

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Photograph
Collections:
Amazon Deforestation
Applied Sciences