The curse of the Amazon.(News)

Pretoria News (South Africa) | December 23, 2008 | Copyright

BYLINE: BRADLEY BROOKS

The shotgun blast that tore through the chest of Chico Mendes made the Brazilian rubber tapper an environmental icon and his fight to save the Amazon a global crusade.

But the battle against clear-cutting in remote jungles is not any safer in the 20 years since two gunmen hid in Mendes's backyard and patiently awaited their target.

More than 1 100 activists, small farmers, judges, priests and other rural workers have been killed in disputes over preserving land since Mendes's murder, according to the Catholic Land Pastoral, a ...

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