Chico Mendes, defender of the rain forest /

Burch, Joann Johansen.

Chico Mendes, defender of the rain forest / by Joann J. Burch. - Brookfield, Conn. : Millbrook Press, c1994. - 48 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm. - A Gateway green biography .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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1562944134 $25.70

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Mendes, Chico, d. 1988 --Juvenile literature.
Mendes, Chico, d. 1988.
Mendes, Chico, d. 1988


Conservationists--Biography--Juvenile literature.--Brazil
Rubber tappers--Biography--Juvenile literature.--Brazil
Rain forest conservation--Juvenile literature.--Amazon River Region
Deforestation--Control--Juvenile literature.--Amazon River Region
Conservationists.
Rubber tappers.
Rain forest conservation--Amazon River Region.
Conservationists
Rubber tappers
Rain forest conservation--Amazon River Region

SD411.52.M46 / B87 1994

333.75/06/0981092 B