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He played Chico Mendes, the union leader who fought heroically to protect the homes and lands of the Brazilian peasants in the western amazon rainforest. Mendes became world famous, and became the international symbol of the effort to save the rainforests, because of his work to prevent the building of a road that would have provided the cattle industry with easy access to the rainforest. Mendes was violently assassinated in 1990 by cattlemen who opposed his efforts. But his message and work live on.
A naturalist counted 700 species of butterflies within a 3-mile radius in an amazon rainforest. In constrast, all of Europe has onlv 321 known butterfly species. Twenty-five acres of Indonesian rainforest contain as many different tree species as are native to all of North America.1 We still know very little about the natural treasures of the tropical rainforests, yet it's clear that their preservation is essential to the planet's ecology. Currently, one-quarter of our medicines derive from raw materials found in these forests.
What we know_ Number of species of birds in one square mile of Amazon rainforest: More than exist in all of North America7 Life forms destroyed in the production of each fast-food hamburger made from rainforest beef: Members of 20 to 30 different plant species, 100 different insect species, and dozens of bird, mammal, and reptile species8 Length of time before the Indonesian forests, all 280 million acres of them, would be completely gone if they were cleared to produce enough beef for Indonesians to eat as much beef, per person, as the people of the United States do: 3.

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