‘Brazilians aren’t familiar with the Amazon’: Q&A with Ângela Mendes

Mongabay
Sep 1, 2022, 11:22 am384 pts
Ângela Mendes was 17 years old when she began to spend more time with her father, the rubber tapper and environmental activist Chico Mendes. She has memories of short trips with him in the Xapuri region. It was a hostile time, and members of the Xapuri Rural Union would hide him in a car to protect him from…

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