chico mendes asked my help. he wa nted it. chico mendes asked my help.ity of the rubber tappers to fight. we talked for two or three hours. i became so impressed with him. six months after, we started the first school for adults in the forest. at the time that i started working with chico, the approach of the brazilian government to the amazon, it was to incentivise the big farmers to cut down the forest and plant agriculture on a big scale, or cattle ranching, roads, mining... but chico mendes was able to persuade the government to protect the area that was in conflict with farmers. the first initiative in the amazon to create and protect the area for rubber tappers. two months later, chico was assassinated by the farmers that lost their land. the gunman, police say, had been hiding out5ide gunman, police say, had been hiding outside his dingy 5hack for days waiting for the moment when he would walk alone through his back to the out5ide 5hower. walk alone through his back to the outside shower. when he was to put away from the door, he was shot. he came

chico mendes was a leader of the protest movement of the 805.your environment depends on keeping our rainforest alive. i first met chico mendes in 1981, in the western part of the amazon. he was a very happy person, a very charismatic person. he was organising the rubber toppers to protect the forest, to stop deforestation. poor people defend the forest because the forest was their livelihood. it was so dangerous to do this kind of movement at that time. my dream is to see this entire forest conserved because we know it can guarantee the future of all the people who live in it. chico mendes asked my help. he wanted to strengthen the capacity of the rubber tappers to fight. we talked for two or three hours. i became so impressed with him. six months after, we started the first school for adults in the forest. at the time that i started working with chico, the approach of the brazilian government to the amazon, it was to incentivise the big farmers to cut down the forest and plant agriculture on a big scale, or cattle ranching, roads, mining... bu