Amazon Forest Pictures, Images and Stock Photos

Browse 55,100+ amazon forest stock photos and images available, or search for amazon forest landscape or amazon forest fire to find more great stock photos and pictures.

Most popular

Harvesting acai native from Amazon, in a traditional way. At the field, workers climb the acai palm trees tying their feet with an artisanal artifact known as "peconha", which helps them to reach the bunches to be cut. Then, threshing and scavenging operations are carried out, which consist, respectively, of releasing the fruits from the bunches and selecting them according to color or maturation stage. The fruits are packed in straw baskets, called "rasas" or "paneiros", and transported in boats to the place of sale. This entire shoot was carried out in Piquiarana-Miri river, located in Abaetetuba city (Para state), one of the most important producers of acai in the brazilian Amazon.

The Altiplano (Spanish for high plain), in west-central South America, where the Andes are at their widest, is the most extensive area of high plateau on earth outside of Tibet. Lake Titicaca is its best known geographical feature. The Altiplano is an area of inland drainage (endorheism) lying in the central Andes, occupying parts of Northern Chile and Argentina, Western Bolivia and Southern Peru. Its height averages about 3,750 meters (12,300 feet), slightly less than that of Tibet. Unlike the Tibetan Plateau, however, the Altiplano is dominated by massive active volcanoes of the Central Volcanic Zone to the west like Ampato (6288 m), Tutupaca (5816 m), Nevado Sajama (6542 m), Parinacota (6348 m), Guallatiri (6071 m), Cerro Paroma (5728 m), Cerro Uturuncu (6008 m) and Licancabur (5916 m), and the Cordillera Real in the north east with Illampu (6368 m), Huayna Potosi (6088 m), Ancohuma (6427 m) and Illimani (6438 m). The Atacama Desert, one of the driest areas on the whole planet, lies to the southwest of the Altiplano. In contrast, to the east lies the humid Amazon Rainforest.http://bem.2be.pl/IS/bolivia_380.jpg

Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest can be attributed to many different factors levels. The rainforest is seen as a resource for cattle pasture, valuable hardwoods, housing space, farming space (especially for soybeans), road works (such as highways and smaller roads), medicines and human gain. Trees are usually cut down illegally.

of 100

© 2024 iStockphoto LP. The iStock design is a trademark of iStockphoto LP. Browse millions of high-quality stock photos, illustrations, and videos.