The Burning Season - The Murder Of Chico Mendes And The Fight For The Amazon Rainforest by Andrew Revkin

In the rain forests of the western Amazon, writes author Andrew Revkin, the threat of violent death hangs in the air like mist after a tropical rain. It is simply a part of the ecosystem, just like the scorpions and snakes living in the leafy canopy that floats over the forest floor like a seamless green circus tent. Violent death came to Chico Mendes in the Amazon rain forest on December 22, 1988. A labor and environmental activist, Mendes was targetted by powerful ranchers for organizing resistance to the wholesale burning of the forest. He was a target because he had convinced the government to take back land ranchers had stolen at gunpoint or through graft and then to transform it into extractive reserves, set aside for the sustainable production of rubber, nuts, and other goods harvested from the living forest. This was not just a local land battle on a remote frontier.

Publisher:	Collins
Year:	1990
Binding:	Hardback
ISBN:	9780002158862
Condition:	Good
Description:	Heavy; Large; DJ.

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SKU: 1594643
Location: Non Fiction