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A List of Articles and Interviews
TEDxAlcatraz - John Carter - Hope Ranch
March 16, 2011Since 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.
Outside Magazine - The Texas Chainsaw Stopper
Nov 3, 2008Expat conservationist John Cain Carter, a former elite Army soldier who did a tour in Iraq, is anything but typical. Same goes for his plan, which calls on ranchers to preserve Brazil's wild west. Can he have it both ways and still save—and survive—the Amazon?
The Economist - The Amazon's Texan saviour
May 26th 2005Can John Cain Carter, an American rancher, save the rainforest?
TCU MAGAZINE - THE CRUCIAL CRUSADE OF AN AMAZON COWBOY
Fall 2009John Cain Carter, a former elite Army soldier and a 1993 graduate of TCU’s Ranch Management program, is fighting to save the Amazon rain forest by convincing others to embrace an ethos of sustainable agriculture.
WISE TRADITIONS PODCAST EPISODE 409 - Off Grid in Brazil with John Cain Carter
March 6, 2023What would it be like to live in the Brazilian Amazon for over 20 years, off grid, 18 hours away from any hospital, hardly speaking the language, while simultaneously running a cattle ranch? John Carter of Aliança Da Terra today describes the many lessons he and his wife gleaned from their time there. From the health and happiness he observed among his neighbors, the Kamayurá Indian, to the negative influence of the government and corporations that he saw unfold over the years.
MONGABAY - Amazon rainforest burning “worst” in memory
October 16, 2007Butler Nature - Interview with Amazon rainforest rancher John Cain Carter
June 6, 2007MONGABAY - Can cattle ranchers and soy farmers save the Amazon?
Jun 6, 2007An Interview with John Cain Carter. The key to making conservation successful is making it profitable. John Carter may hold that key.
Undark - The Slow Death of Ecology’s Birthplace
December 16, 2016Brazil’s cerrado, where a pioneering botanist traced the evolution of plants, is being plowed under for agribusiness.