Mato Grosso, Brazil
Sheds for tens of thousands of egg-laying chickens lie sheltered in a grove of trees planted to protect the genetically identical birds from being decimated by wind-borne diseases. Mono-genetic animal operations are very productive but precariously prone to disease. This area of the Amazon Basin is in a transition zone from tropical rainforest to savannah that is rapidly being converted to large-scale farms as the climate allows two harvests per year without irrigation.
