Green Naga hills stretching into the distance, scarred by brown scorched hill after slash and burn system has occurred, Nagaland, India, Asia

Slash and burn forest fire, Antsirabe, Vakinankaratra Region, Madagascar, Africa

Mixed paddy fields growing vegetables under the highly efficient Jhum system of slash and burn and varied crops, Nagaland, India, Asia

Workers' huts on Naga hillside being desecrated by the government slash and burn system to improve soil for agriculture, Nagaland, India, Asia

Desecration across beautiful Naga hills from the government slash and burn system, to improve land for cultivation, Nagaland, India, Asia

Slash and burn agriculture, St. Lucia, Windward Islands, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America

Akha hill tribe village, with deforested hills destroyed by slash and burn farming by tribes in the background, Chiang Rai province, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia

Deforestation for farmland, cleared by slash and burn, Mogok Hills, Mandalay District, Myanmar (Burma), Asia

East timor slash and burn farming in oecussi-ambeno

Deforestation by burning off for the recovery of arable land by large landowners, Gran Chaco, Salta Province, Argentina, South America

Deforestation by burning off for the recovery of arable land by large landowners, Gran Chaco, Salta Province, Argentina, South America

Slash and burn agriculture turns virgin forests into farmland.

Controlled burn on Panther #10 clearcut on the Okanogan National Forest, WA to clear slash for replanting.

BRAZIL Amazon Acre Brazil nut trees left after deforestation by slash and burn. Brasil

Bangladesh, Chittagong Division, Bandarban, Hillsides burned in the traditional slash and burn style of juma agriculture.

Bangladesh, Chittagong Division, Bandarban, Bamboo burning in the traditional slash and burn style of juma agriculture.

Bangladesh, Chittagong Division, Bandarban, Hillsides burned in the traditional slash and burn style of juma agriculture.

Thomson's gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii) on slash-and-burn, Serengeti, Tanzania.