GG5 – Sustainable development issues in the

Amazon TRF Biome

Key Idea 3: Many organisations (Governments, multinational companies and NGOs) and individuals are involved

in decision making in this natural environment. There may be conflict

between their aims.

Key Idea 3: Many organisations (Governments, multinational companies and NGOs) and individuals are involved in decision making in this natural environment.

There may be conflict between their aims.

GG5c: Natural Environments - Amazon Tropical Rain Forest Biome

Organisations involved in a

chain of predatory

exploitation

Organisations involved in a

chain of predatory

exploitation

The government of Brazil and President Lula da

Silva

The trend towards closer cooperation between Brazil and China - the developing world's two biggest economies - reflects their burgeoning trade relationship. Total trade between the two nations grew five-fold between 2000 and 2003 to a value of $8bn (£4.5bn).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2005/nov/10/environment.china

Blairo Maggi – The Soya King

Mato Grosso

Amazon

http://www.cargill.com/news/issues/

issues_greenpeacereport.pdf

Organisations involved in a

chain of predatory

exploitation

2005 Report –’Eating up the Amazon’

Eating Up The Amazon06 April 2006

In this report we illustrate the soya crisis through the example of two key global players: Cargill (possibly the largest private company in the world) in the Amazon and McDonald’s (the largest fast food company in the world) in Europe. We document the path taken by soya from illegally cleared farms,

sometimes with the use of slave labour, to Cargill and its competitors, through the ports, processors and meat producers of Europe, and finally

into the Chicken McNuggets sold under the golden arches across the continent.

Brazil’s Environmental Protection Agency

Social Justice Issues and

Human Rights Violations

Avanca Brazil is threatening the

lives, livelihoods and spiritual/

ancestral lands of the

indigenous Amerindian

Tribes like the Enawene Nawe

Survival International is a human rights organisation formed in 1969 that campaigns for the rights of indigenous tribal peoples and helps them to determine their own future. Their campaigns generally focus on tribal peoples' fight to keep their ancestral lands, culture and their own way of living. Their headquarters are in London, and they have

offices in Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Milan and Amsterdam.

If we want to help societies our first job is to listen, rather than to dictate what we think they need, and we must be prepared to be surprised. This is not just to do with remote tribal peoples: it's of

vital relevance to all in a world where ideas of multiculturalism are misunderstood and under attack and where some increasingly want to force their views on others." Stephen Corry, Director of

Survival International, April 2007

The Enawene Nawe Tribehttp://www.tribalchannel.tv/player/program/2

Rainforest Activists

Chico Mendez (1988)

Sr Dorothy Stang (2005)

Sting

Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, better known as Chico Mendes (December 15,

1944 – December 22, 1988), was a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and

environmental activist. He fought to stop the logging of the Amazon Rainforest to

clear land for cattle ranching, and founded a national union of rubber tappers in an

attempt to preserve their profession and the rainforest that it relied upon. He was

murdered in 1988 by ranchers opposed to his activism.

Sister Dorothy Stang

On the Lawless Fringe of Brazil's Amazon Jungle - Where Illegal Loggers Have Devastated the Rainforest - the

American Nun Dorothy Stang Defended the Poor,Then the Gunmen Came for Her

Interest Group

The aims of this group and how this impacts the TRF biome

Brazilian Gov’t – Lula da Silva

Chinese Gov’t

Blairo Maggi - Mato Grosso Governor

Cargill

European/US animal feed & fast food/retail companies

IBAMA

Survival Internat – Enawene Nawe

Greenpeace

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11756