Burned jungle

Lacandon jungle burned for agriculture in Chiapas, Mexico. This was one of those times when it sucks to be a circumspect liberal. I snapped a few pictures of burning and burned jungle (it is constant), and everyone around always looked at me like I'd done something terribly rude. On the one hand, ohhh the environment. On the other, the people who burned this are Mayans, living traditional lives on the land instead of working for slave wages in a depressing factory.

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Arnisto.com says:

Tragic agricultural method. Thx for the photo and reality check.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

pixeltoo says:

Hello Jami Dwyer,
Have you published youir picture on wiki with the public domain licence?
If yes I will upload it on commons.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lacanja_burn.JPG
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Jami Dwyer says:

hi pixeltoo. you can do whatever you like with this picture. i have released it to the public domain, though repeated irritation with wikipedia administration makes me regret that they specifically can use it.

but to emphasize, you can do whatever you like with this photo, including uploading it to wikimedia commons.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

1Sock says:

I've been to Chiapas. Whereabouts was this pic taken? I agree that there is a difference between native pillaging of the environment and corporate pillaging. So often we can pass judgment on traditional methods such as these, but it is the corporate pillaging that creates the real impact in this world. Thank you so much for sharing this shot in my group.

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Seen next to a fellow photo of Wildness - The Edge of Nature. (?)
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

Jami Dwyer says:

1Sock, this was near Lacanja Chansayab. I saw the extremely bad corporate form of this when I was flying into Cancun on a different trip. There were huge rectangular plots that looked like they'd been sprayed with Agent Orange. They had roads already set up for the mega-resorts to be built there. Grody.
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

buckdenton13 says:

I used this photo in an article of mine:

www.conservationreport.com/2008/02/biofuels-p roduced-from...
www.conservationreport.com/

I gave the necessary "Photo source for attribution" and other information.

Thank you very much.

Buck
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

miglionicomeghan says:

This makes me sad : (
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

LeszekZadlo says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called 100+ Views Natural Landscapes *Post 1, Comment 1*, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

LeszekZadlo says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called My favorite Forest Photo Award (add 1, award 1), and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

MERLIN08 says:

This photo deserves My favorite Forest Photo Award

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