And then there were those cruel, sudden gaps, the clearings where she stood alone, not knowing how to return.

NEWYORKER: Naima

This omniscience comes at a price: its resolution is only 250 metres, so it does not pick up smaller clearings.

ECONOMIST: What the numbers do and don't say about deforestation

Since then, however, biofuel clearings and other pressures have created new concerns.

ECONOMIST: The benefits of CCS

Below was the wilderness, then the perfectly square clearings in the trees, and, finally, as we headed into Fort McMurray, the vast pits and the black ponds, with the bitumen bobbing on top.

NEWYORKER: Unconventional Crude

Odzala is characterized by a rich variety of habitats, including primary rain forest with a closed canopy (e.g. with Entandrophragma utile, E. candollei and E. cylindricum) and open understorey layer, forests dominated by dense formations of Marantaceae, forest clearings and savannas on the hilltops (e.g. with Hymenocardia acida, Annona arenaria or Hyparrhenia diplandra).

UNESCO: Biosphere Reserve Information