The Killing of Chico Mendes [videorecording] / directed by Adrian Cowell ; written by Adrian Cowell, Michael Kirk ; produced by Roger James ; a coproduction of Central Independent Television, Universidade Católica de Goiás, and WGBH/Boston.
"Produced by Adrian Cowell"--External container. Originally broadcast on the PBS television program Frontline. Will Lyman.
Summary:
The series concludes with the story of Chico Mendes, a rubber-tapper whose brutal murder in 1988 provoked international protest and brought worldwide attention to the problem of Amazonian deforestation. Mendes rose to prominence as the leader of the rubbertappers, or seringueiros, who lived in the rainforest for over 100 years subsisting by tapping native rubber, collecting Brazil nuts and other ecologically sustainable activities. Seeing their way of life threatened, Mendes led the seringueiros union in the fight to halt the devastation of the rainforest and to create protected areas to be managed by local seringueiro communities. As a result of Chico's activism, twelve 'extractive reserves' with more than 5 million acres are being created in the most promising development to have come out of Amazonia in the 1980's.
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