Sentences with phrase «rubber tappers in»

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.

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.»

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.

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.

(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.

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

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

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

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.