No.TITLESOURCEMEDIUM
01Music From Mato GrossoSmithsonian by Harry Tschopik, Jr.Music
02The Crucial Crusade of an Amazon CowboyTCU Magazine by Kathryn HopperArticle
03The Death of Chico MendesWashington Post by Miriam ParelArticle
04Murder in the RainforestVanity Fair by Alex ShoumatoffArticle
05KamaiuráIndigenous Peoples in BrazilWeb
06Hope RanchTEDx AlcatrazVideo
07The Texas Chainsaw StopperOutside Magazine by Stephanie PearsonArticle
08The Amazon’s Texas SaviourThe EconomistArticle
09Concerns over deforestation may drive new approach to cattle
ranching in the AmazonMongabay by Rhett ButlerWeb
10Mato Grosso - The Last Virgin Landby Anthony Smith and Michael JosephBook
Music From Mato Grosso
Smithsonian
1999Edward 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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