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



Murder in the Rainforest
Nov 2013
Vanity Fair by Alex Shoumatoff

One evening Chico Mendes stepped out his back door and was blasted by a twenty-gauge shotgun. It could have been just another killing in Brazil’s badlands, but Mendes was a central figure in the worldwide movement to save the rain forest, a sort of Amazonian Gandhi, and he immediately became an environmental cause célèbre. Alex Shoumatoff journeys to a remote corner of western Brazil to investigate and chronicle a death foretold Darci Alves, the twenty-one-year-old son of a local rancher, confessed to Chico’s murder. He is thought to be the tool of a vicious right-wing organization of landowners."

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