Rainforest cowboys : the rise of ranching and cattle culture in western Amazonia / Jeffrey Hoelle.
The opening of the Amazon to colonization in the 1970s brought cattle, land conflict, and widespread deforestation. In the remote state of Acre, Brazil, rubber tappers fought against migrant ranchers to preserve the forest they relied on, and in the process, these "forest guardians" showed...
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