Sentences with phrase «of rubber tappers»
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.
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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.
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Mono - cropping exposes the soil surface allowing faster transpiration rate and reducing moisture, in the context of rubber plantations the rubber tappers suffered most since there is a significant reduction of moisture there is a dramatic decrease in sap supply of rubber trees.»
She began working closely with Chico Mendes, a rubber tapper who went on to become one of Brazil's most famous advocates for indigenous rights.
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.
Darli Alves da Silva and his son Darci Alves Perreira had served two years and two months of a 19 - year sentence for killing Mendes, a rubber tapper who organised human «fences» to prevent estate owners from destroying the forest.
Unscrupulous rubber merchants eventually enslaved «hundreds of thousands of Indians» from isolated Amazonian tribes to work as rubber tappers, according to a 1988 study by the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs.
And Oren, who has risked his scientific reputation because he has come to believe the stories of hunters and rubber tappers and others in the rain forest who say the mapinguari is quite real, remains cautiously optimistic.
As Scott Wallace so vividly reported for National Geographic in 2013, Chota was adept at organizing patrols to confront loggers on tribal territory, echoing the work of Chico Mendes, the rubber tapper who similarly fought — and died — just across the border in Brazil in 1988.
The money comes from KfW as payments for emissions reductions, and 70 % of it is earmarked specifically for the providers of ecosystem services, including rubber - tappers and indigenous peoples.
(12/22/2013) Twenty - five years ago today, Chico Mendes, an Amazon rubber tapper, was shot and killed in front of his family at his home in Acre, Brazil at the age of 44.
In facing the development of these market - based policies in far - away places like California, forest communities of the Brazilian Amazon recently held a gathering in the rubber tapper stronghold of Xapuri.
He was one of many poor rubber tappers murdered in this struggle.
The reserve is named after Francisco AChico @ Mendes, a rubber tapper, rural union leader and founder of the Xapuri Agro-Extractive Cooperative (CAEX).
Meet Marina Silva — she wants to be Brazil's Green new president.It's no surprise that environmental issues are at the heart of Silva's campaign; Born in 1958, she grew up alongside rubber tappers in the Amazon rainforest as one of eleven children.
In October, 1987, Schwartzman met with the governor of the Amazonian state of Acre, Brazil, to discuss the work of Environmental Defense Fund with the multilateral development banks and Schwartzman's research on the rubber tappers» sustainable alternative proposal.
Following the historic election of Brazil's first working - class president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Marina Silva was named the environment minister of South America's largest country, thrusting this former rubber tapper, who was virtually illiterate until her teens, on to the front line of Brazil's battle against deforestation - and of the global fight against climate change.