Antonio has spent the past seven years running toward fires that most others run from. A firefighter in the Brazilian Amazon since 2019, he works inside the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, one of the ...
insider.si.edu: The burning season : the murder of Chico Mendes and the fight for the Amazon rain forest / Andrew Revkin
"A well-written and sympathetic biography of the late Chico Mendes, leader of the Acre rubber tappers who was assassinated in Dec. 1988. Uses biographical format successfully to probe the wider ...
The burning season : the murder of Chico Mendes and the fight for the Amazon rain forest / Andrew Revkin
insider.si.edu: Walking the forest with Chico Mendes : struggle for justice in the Amazon / Gomercindo Rodrigues ; edited and translated by Linda Rabben ; introduction by Biorn Maybury-Lewis
Walking the forest with Chico Mendes : struggle for justice in the Amazon / Gomercindo Rodrigues ; edited and translated by Linda Rabben ; introduction by Biorn Maybury-Lewis
Mongabay: Conflict in the Chico Mendes Reserve threatens this pioneering Amazonian project
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Farmers and irregular occupants in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve in Acre are enjoying newfound political power and pressuring for the ...
XAPURI, Brazil — In death as in life, Chico Mendes continues to provoke controversy. Almost 16 years after his assassination here in the backwater town where he was born, the renowned rubber ...
Democracy Now: Assassinated Amazonian Rubber Tapper Chico Mendes Tried to Save the Rainforest. Meet His Daughter
We recently spoke to Brazilian environmental activist Angela Mendes, the daughter of Amazonian forest defender and labor leader Chico Mendes, who was assassinated by ranchers in December 1988. She ...