"Rubber tappers" refers to people who harvest rubber from trees.
Sentences with «rubber tappers»
Their history reaches back to the late 1970s, when anthropologist Mary Allegretti was working on her dissertation on the plight of rubber tappers in the Amazon, who were losing their working forests to powerful cattle ranchers. (scientificamerican.com)
The leader, Francisco Mendes Filho, 44 years old, had fought against the eviction of rubber tappers from their forest lands and the destruction of the jungle. (nytimes.com)
After cattle ranchers murdered Mendes in 1988, the Brazilian government responded to the concerns of anthropologists and indigenous rubber tappers by establishing the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve. (scientificamerican.com)