The New York Times recently released a Retro Report on the fight to save the Amazon rainforest over several decades. The foundation applauds all of those who have long worked to conserve the Amazon, including grantees in our Andes-Amazon Initiative and Forests and Agricultural Markets Initiative.
In the first of two responses, "28 years after Chico Mendes’s death, four environmental challenges still facing the Amazon," EDF's Steve Schwartzman writes that the Retro Report "does a very good job of showing both how very much Chico’s ideas, his story, and the indigenous and local forest communities’ fight for their land rights that he gave his life for, have changed the Amazon, Brazil and the world — and how very far from over the fight is." Read his first response, outlining major factors that have not changed since Chico Mendes was assassinated, here.
In his second post, "Three reasons why it's not too late to save the Amazon," Schwartzman describes three important developments, to which "Chico and indigenous leaders, including the Kayapô leaders Raoni and Megaron" have been major contributors. "Chico started from a position far more disadvantaged, and had to overcome greater challenges than just about anyone who will read this," he writes. "But he changed the world. Let him be an example to us." You can read his second response here.
Watch the Retro Report below:
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