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


TEDx Alcatraz
Since Microsoft was founded, an area of the Amazon rainforest nearly the size of Texas has been destroyed in Brazil. The vast majority of that rainforest -- up to 80% in recent years -- was turned into cattle pasture. But today it is ranchers who may ultimately save the Amazon. John Carter, a rancher originally from Texas who moved to one of Earth's wildest frontiers in the mid-1990's, placed himself amongst ongoing battles among Indians, loggers, developers, squatters and police. Through his non-profit conservation organization, Aliança da Terra, John is working on an idea that could turn ranchers from the biggest drivers of deforestation to the saviors of the world's largest rainforest. 

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