Chico Mendes

Chico Mendes 99.144/90-12/03/90 Rio Branco, Xapuri, Brasileia, Assis Brasii/AC 970,570 7500... 

Currently, the state of Acre in western Brazilian Amazonia has nearly half the area of extractive reserves and setdements in Amazonia (Table 1). Of the 1.7 million ha in reserves and settlements within the state, Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve is the largest, covering 970,000 ha. It is located in the Brazil nut-rich southeastern portion of Acre and it is this extractive region that is the focus of our subsequent discussions. 

In addition to environmental and socioeconomic drivers operating at various spatial and time scales, extractivists are faced with changing political and conceptual challenges. For example, the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve joined over forty seringals into one... 

Fig. 8.2. Landsat TM image of the central portion of the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve in eastern Acre, Brazil. The white line outlines the boundary of the reserve. North is to the top of the image, which covers about 90 km x 90 km. Xapuri is the local urban center. The light areas are deforested lands, principally large cattle ranches. The national highway BR-317 threads through the center of the deforested lands along the eastern side of the image. Data is from August 1989, TM bands 3, 4, and 5.

The mapping of the Chico Mendes. Extractive Reserve has served two purposes. It has helped generate information necessary for the management of the reserve, the initial goal of the research. More importantly, however, it has stimulated dozens of extractivists to learn more about their reserve and... 

Brazil, Ministerio do Meio Ambiente, dos Recursos Hidricos e da Amazonia Legal. 1995. Plano de utilizafao da Reserva Extrativista Chico Mendes. Instituto BrasUeiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Renovaveis. BrasUia. p. 32. 

Brown, I. F., A. Alechandre, H. S. Y. Sassagawa, and M. A. de Aquino. 1995. Empowering local communities in land-use management The Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, Acre, Brazil. Cultural Survival Quarterly. Winter 54-57. 

Ming, L.C. Levantamento de plantas medicinais na Reserva Extrativista "Chico Mendes"- ACRE, Ph.D. Thesis, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Julio Mesquita Filho", Botucatu Brazil, 1995. 

Chico Mendes. Brazilian rubber tapper fighting the destruction of the Amazon rainforest is assassinated. Scientists use satellite photos to document what the Amazon fires are doing to the rainforest, http //www.chicomendes.com/... 

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