Climatelinks Photo Gallery

Flamingos drinking water at a lake in the Uyuni salt flats.

Dried up lake in the Bolivian salt flats.

In Sugodi, Barangay Cabayugan, Palawan, Philippines, newly cleared forest land for agriculture, with views of pristine forests protected by the CADC and park areas in the background.

A man pulls a buoy onto a boat near a small island in the Federated States of Micronesia.

USAID's Amazon Vision 2020 Report looks at the Agency's efforts to address illegal deforestation, among other topics. This includes USAID’s collaboration with Wake Forest University’s Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA) to research how the effects of illegal deforestation in Madre de Dios, Peru can be mitigated and reversed. CINCIA scientists are researching reforestation techniques to reclaim the Amazon as quickly as possible, as well as monitoring mercury pollution and deforestation using drones. If CINCIA’s reforestation pilot with Peru’s National Protected Areas Services in Tambopata National Reserve is successful, the government of Peru could use similar techniques to reforest other areas of the Amazon, such as the nearly 10,000 hectares in southeastern Peru that have been destroyed by illegal mining since 1985. CINCIA uses drones like the one pictured here to improve the analysis of deforested mining areas.