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This analysis predicted the impact of a road that was never built. In addition to the deforestation that would occur directly as a result of the road, even more natural forest may be lost due to unofficial roads branching from the road or the conversion of surrounding land to private holdings.
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If the proposed road had been constructed, several hundred square kilometers of land would have become deforested, much of that land in untouched rainforest.
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As such, it is difficult to regrow Amazon rainforest after it has been deforested. The soil quality in the region is poor and quickly depleted of nutrients. Most of the seemingly barren terrain is actually pasture or farmland. While deforestation in the Amazon does occur for extractive purposes, such as acquiring lumber, a lot of deforestation clears land for cattle grazing or perennial agriculture. The large, barren-looking area is deforested.Īlthough the land looks barren, it is actually not. In Rondônia, however, a large portion of the land is grayish-brown terrain, with the green regions mostly in the northern and western parts of the state. When the map was zoomed to South America, the area inside the Amazon Ecoregion layer appeared greener than the area outside.