Fight for the Forest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fight for the Forest write by Chico Mendes. This book was released on 1989. Fight for the Forest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Fight for the Forest, Chico Mendes talks of his life's work in his last major interview.
Forest Fighter
Forest Fighter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forest Fighter write by Anita Ganeri. This book was released on 2023-11-07. Forest Fighter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A picture book that tells the important story of Chico Mendes, who led the fight to protect the Amazon rainforest and demand fair treatment for the people whose livelihoods depended on it. Chico Mendes lived in the depths of the Amazon rainforest where trees grew tall and strong and wildlife roamed freely. From the age of 8, Chico worked with his father collecting sap from trees that could be sold to make rubber. Rubber tappers were very poor and the rainforest was increasingly being destroyed by burning and logging, threatening their livelihoods. Chico knew he had to take a stand. He became a spokesperson for the community, fighting hard to preserve the Amazon rainforest, and speaking up for the rights of other rubber tappers. He won several international awards for his campaigns, but the loggers still wouldn’t stop. At the age of 44, Chico was murdered by one of the loggers. Grippingly written by award-winning author, Anita Ganeri, and vibrantly illustrated by Margaux Carpentier, Forest Fighter tells the inspiring story of Chico Mendes, who was not afraid to speak up for others and worked tirelessly to protect the rainforest. It depicts the incredible wildlife and peoples who co-exist there and shows why it is so important that all rainforests are protected.
Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes
Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes write by Gomercindo Rodrigues. This book was released on 2009-03-06. Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A close associate of Chico Mendes, Gomercindo Rodrigues witnessed the struggle between Brazil's rubber tappers and local ranchers—a struggle that led to the murder of Mendes. Rodrigues's memoir of his years with Mendes has never before been translated into English from the Portuguese. Now, Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes makes this important work available to new audiences, capturing the events and trends that shaped the lives of both men and the fragile system of public security and justice within which they lived and worked. In a rare primary account of the celebrated labor organizer, Rodrigues chronicles Mendes's innovative proposals as the Amazon faced wholesale deforestation. As a labor unionist and an environmentalist, Mendes believed that rain forests could be preserved without ruining the lives of workers, and that destroying forests to make way for cattle pastures threatened humanity in the long run. Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes also brings to light the unexplained and uninvestigated events surrounding Mendes's murder. Although many historians have written about the plantation systems of nineteenth-century Brazil, few eyewitnesses have captured the rich rural history of the twentieth century with such an intricate knowledge of history and folklore as Rodrigues.
The Burning Season
The Burning Season - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Burning Season write by Andrew Revkin. This book was released on 1990. The Burning Season available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chico Mendes--a name synonymous with the battle to save the rain forest--was a Brazilian rubber tapper and homegrown environmentalist who was killed in December 1988 by ranchers intent on ravaging the jungle for short-term gain. Now an award-winning journalist has written a deeply affecting book about the life and death of this courageous, passionate man. Two 8-page photo inserts.
Nature's Allies
Nature's Allies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature's Allies write by Larry Nielsen. This book was released on 2017-02-02. Nature's Allies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It's easy to feel powerless in the face of big environmental challenges--but we need inspiration now more than ever. In Nature's Allies, Larry Nielsen presents the inspiring stories of eight conservation pioneers who show that through passion and perseverance we can each make a difference, even in the face of political opposition. Nielsen's vivid biographies of John Muir, Ding Darling, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Chico Mendes, Billy Frank Jr., Wangari Maathai, and Gro Harlem Brundtland are meant to rally a new generation of conservationists to follow in their footsteps and inspire students, conservationists, and nature lovers to speak up for nature and prove that individuals can affect positive change in the world.
