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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 AmazonMongabay by Rhett Butler
Web
10Mato Grosso - The Last Virgin Landby Anthony Smith and Michael Joseph
Book

The Amazon’s Texas Saviour
Economist May 26, 2005

AT THE helm of a second-hand Cessna aircraft, John Cain Carter is as preoccupied with the Earth below
 as he is with the clouds ahead. An expanse of pasture the size of a small principality “used to be all forest,” he points out, banking right. And the flood plain between the Rio Araguaia and the Rio das Mortes was once “stirrup-high in water. Today you can drive a jeep out there in the rainy season,” he concludes, ruefully. Mr Carter attributes the unnatural dryness to landowners who cut down trees to make way for pasture, shutting o" the supply of moisture from tree to cloud. Watching it happen “is a nightmare.”

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