This a satellite image of a typical Amazon village taken from Google Earth. Its orderly set up bare soil streets are connected to a wider unpaved main road. This “street” is stretching on both directions connecting the neighboring villages with a total length over 800km. It might be the longest road for commercial transportation in the world. Looking from a distance, the scale of deforestation is unbelievable. Obviously, construction industry is one of the key players in this consumption.

The following is a snapshot again from Google Earth, this time not Brazil but Bolivia. Notice the organized pattern of deforestation.

The Worldmapper depicts forest losses of countries in a very interesting method. Even this is well known statistics, it is striking to visualize it in a deformed world map.