Deforestation in Brazil

Figure 1: Map showing deforestation and areas at-risk for deforestation in Rondonia, Brazil.

This map may be used by development planners when trying to determine the potential impacts of putting a road here in the Amazon. Roads are directly correlated to loss of rainforest in Brazil and all over South America. Roads branch off into more roads and lead to deforestation due to both legal and illegal practices. This map shows how putting a road here could lead to deforestation right around the planned road. In order to save the rainforest and slow deforestation roads such as this one should not be placed because it clearly leads to mass amounts of deforestation.