Title: Chico Mendes, defender of the rain forest
First published: 1994
Description: 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.
Subjects: Juvenile literature, Rubber tappers, Conservationists, Rain forest conservation, Biography, Control, Deforestation
Places: Amazon River Region, Brazil
People: Chico Mendes (d. 1988)
LC classification: SD411.52.M46 B87 1994