No.TITLESOURCE
MEDIUM

01Music From Mato GrossoSmithsonian by Harry Tschopik, Jr.
Music

02The Crucial Crusade of an Amazon CowboyTCU Magazine by Kathryn Hopper
Article

03The Death of Chico MendesWashington Post by Miriam Parel
Article

04Murder in the RainforestVanity Fair by Alex Shoumatoff
Article

05KamaiuráIndigenous Peoples in Brazil
Web

06Hope RanchTEDx Alcatraz
Video

07The Texas Chainsaw StopperOutside Magazine by Stephanie Pearson
Article

08The Amazon’s Texas SaviourThe Economist
Article

09Concerns over deforestation may drive new approach to cattle 
ranching in the Amazon
Mongabay by Rhett Butler
Web

10Mato Grosso - The Last Virgin Landby Anthony Smith and Michael Joseph
Book



Music From Mato Grosso
Smithsonian
1999
Edward M. Weyer - Photographer (Cover)
Recording Era: 1950‘s

Three days before Christmas, Francisco (Chico) Mendes was shot dead in the small Amazonian frontier town of Xapuri in Brazil. He was killed by hired assassins because of a land dispute. But he died for a cause that may be one of the last, best hopes for preserving the Amazon rain forest and with it the livelihoods of a million and a half rubber tappers and "extractivists."

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