Sentences with phrase «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.

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.

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.

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.

Twenty - five years ago, Brazilian rubber tapper Chico Mendes was murdered for his efforts to protect the Amazon rainforest.

The low price of Hevea rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) has led many rubber tappers in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve in Southeast Acre to search for new and identify economic opportunities to maintain and increase family income.

Schwartzman participated as an observer in the negotiations between the government, Chico, and other rubber tapper leaders.

The Chico Mendes Committee, which represents rubber tappers and human rights activists, claims there was collaboration by the authorities somewhere along the line.

(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.

He was one of many poor rubber tappers murdered in this struggle.

The Chico Mendes Reserve was created in 1990, the result of what was a violent struggle for land rights and social justice pitting rubber tappers against ranchers (see Hecht and Cockburn 1989 and Schwartzman 1992).

She got her start in politics in the mid-90s, becoming the first rubber tapper to be elected to the Brazilian senate.

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.

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.

Three meetings were held in March and April with 40 indigenous leaders, extractive communities, such as rubber tappers and family farmers, in addition to technicians from local non-governmental organizations.

Brazilian rubber tapper and land rights leader Chico Mendes pioneered the world's first tropical forest conservation initiative advanced by forest peoples themselves.

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.

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.

Oren says he has spoken to Indians, rubber tappers and illegal gold - miners who have seen the creature.

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.

The road has been a catastrophe for the indigenous people, rubber tappers and the rain forest.

It's hard for me to believe that it's been 25 years since a cattle rancher ordered his son to shoot Chico Mendes, a rubber tapper and unionist who had become an effective international campaigner for sustainable use of the Amazon rain forest.

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.

I like to think that if his assassin had missed, he would still be fighting for the cause of the rubber tappers and other traditional communities on the front lines of sustainability.

When writing my book on the Amazon, I learned about the power of radio (which was an organizing tool for the rubber tappers seeking to gain land rights).

Road - paving projects, many underwritten by wealthy countries, were spreading ranching and logging into areas inhabited by rubber tappers and Indians, with environmental destruction and violence the result.

Nearly 20 years ago, just across the Brazilian border from the Peruvian region where Mr. Agapito fell, it was Chico Mendes, an organizer of the forest's rubber tappers, who was shot in the back door of his shanty after he prevented a violent ranching family from acquiring new forest tracts.

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.

The reserve is named after Francisco AChico @ Mendes, a rubber tapper, rural union leader and founder of the Xapuri Agro-Extractive Cooperative (CAEX).

Although the union Mr. Mendes headed in Xapuri had only 3,000 members, he became the most prominent leader of the rubber tappers in the western Amazon and the de facto spokesman for 165,000 families that make a living as tappers in Brazil.

The company also pays the rubber tappers a fair trade premium.

A rubber tapper by trade, Mendes fought to preserve the rainforest which sustained the profession, opposing development and deforestation from cattle farmers and loggers.

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.