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Chico Mendes

Relates the life story of a man who worked tapping rubber trees, and worked to save the Brazilian rainforests.

The burning season

the Chico Mendes story
1995
Tells the true story of Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper who leads his people in protest against government and developers who want to cut down their part of the rainforest for a new road and ranch land.

The burning season

the murder of Chico Mendes and the fight for the Amazon rain forest
1994

The burning season

the murder of Chico Mendes and the fight for the Amazon rain forest
1990
An account of the life of the Brazilian rubber tapper and grass-roots environmentalist, and a celebration of the beauty of the Amazon basin.

Chico Mendes, defender of the rain forest

1994
Discusses the life and work of the Brazilian rubber tapper whose efforts to secure fair treatment for other tappers and to preserve the Amazon rain forests resulted in his murder in 1988.

Chico Mendes

fight for the forest
1992
Relates the story of the rubber tapper who was murdered because of his protest movement to stop the destruction of the Amazon rain forest.
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