The City of Brasilia, State of Acre

The State of Acre in the very southwestern edge of Amazonia is a lately agricultural border in Brazil. For years thousands of rubber tappers have been extracting latex from ficus within the tropical forest domain. The extraction has been done through the years on a sustainable basis between the tappers and the forest. The land use patterns of that kind of activity are shown in the upper part of the image as small bright patches within the dark green signature of forestry. The wider squared fields (rose colour) that border the roads and leave Brasilia City (a rose spot in the middle right border of the frame) are large cattle farmlands. The forest was moved to grass during later years despite the ecological claims for environmental preservation and sustainability. Strong social impacts have been reported in this region between farmers and tappers.