Hundreds, if not thousands, of white streaks in the photo below indicate the multitude of fires burning in this view over Indonesian Borneo. The following photo shows about 250 miles of fires burning along Mozambique's coast line. Ground features are almost completely obscured by smoke over the Amazon. In Tanzania, the burning of brush clears more land for farming. Along the Zambezi River Delta of East Africa, smoke and smoke plumes can be seen from space in the photo below.
Nothing beats the power of a good photograph.
Reading about rainforest deforestation doesn't have the same impact as a picture of native indians walking through recently burnt rainforest.