DeStefano, Susan.

Chico Mendes : fight for the forest / Susan DeStefano ; illustrated by Larry Raymond. - Frederick, Md. : Twenty-First Century Books, c1992. - 76 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. - Earth keepers .

Includes index.

Relates the story of the rubber tapper who was murdered because of his protest movement to stop the destruction of the Amazon rain forest.

ISBN: 094147741X

LCCN: 91019734

Subjects--Personal Names:
Mendes, Chico, d. 1988.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Conservationists--Biography.--Brazil
Rubber tappers--Biography.--Brazil
Rain forest conservation--Brazil.
Rain forest conservation--Amazon River Region.
Deforestation--Brazil.
Deforestation--Amazon River Region.

LC Class. No.: SD411.52.M46 / D47 1991

Dewey Class. No.: 333.75/16/0981092 B