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CHICO MENDES
Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, known as Chico Mendes was born in 15 of December 1944 in Brasil. He was son of rubber gatherer, he had learnt his father’s profession when he was a child. -
CHICO MENDES
On and after 1976 he started to participate of movements of the rubber gatherer against the deforestation. Those movements were called “empates”. They were pacific manifestations in which people protect the trees with their own bodies. They also defended the right of propriety of the land by the native inhabitant of the region. -
CHICO MENDES
In 1977 he is elected town councilor. As he fights against big groups interested in the exploration of the Amazon rainforest he started to be threaten of death in this same year. -
CHICO MENDES
In 1979 Chico Mendes was the president of “Sindicato de Xapuri” of the first National rubber gatherer Meeting was created the CNS (Conselho Nacional dos Seringueiros). -
CHICO MENDES
In 1987 Chico Mendes is visited by members of ONU where they could see the devastation of the forest. Three months later the financing of many projects were suspended. And Chico Mendes is accused of prejudice the progress by farmers and politics from Acre. In this same year he receives the award “global 500”. -
CHICO MENDES
In 1988 he took part of the implantation of the fist Extractivest Reserves created in Acre state.
