Satellite technology is helping to educate humanity about the global crisis of deforestation.

For example, these two side-by-side photographs are of exactly the same piece of land.

Within 26 years, almost all of this section, and all the creatures which were living in it, were gone.

This level of deforestation is happening throughout the Amazon Basin.

Land settlers clear the forest on their parcels of land all along the main and secondary roads, first cutting and then burning the cleared forest.

The cleared areas get larger and larger, and closer together, until finally what's left is one large area of deforestation.

"Because these roads cut deep into the rainforest and then spread outwards, there's a much greater loss of habitat and species than if there was a single area of deforestation, because the amount of 'edge' is critical for biodiversity," says Compton Tucker, a biologist and tropical forest expert at NASA.

Buy The Amazon is endeavouring to educate and motivate the general public, both in the UK and worldwide, including children, families, students, and teachers, about the inspirational ways in which downstream satellite data is helping to protect the Amazon rainforest.