Third environmentalist killed in a week in Brazil's Amazon Rainforest region

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Xinhua

Third environmentalist killed in a week in Brazil's Amazon Rainforest region
12:34, May 28, 2011

A Brazilian environmentalist was killed Friday in the Amazon Rainforest region, three days after the murders of two other environmental activists in the area, authorities said.

Adelino Ramos, known as Dinho and a leader among local impoverished farmers, was killed Friday morning while selling vegetables produced in the farming settlement in Porto Velho in the state of Rondonia.

He was shot six times by an unidentified man on a motorbike.

Reports said Ramos was receiving threats for denouncing illegal logging in the Amazon region along the border between Rondonia and the states of Acre and Amazonas. He also fought for land reforms in the region.


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[juajen]

1. Either for oil, minerals, mining or all three. Do we even have a chance

anywhere in the world now? We need this ecological system.

[joshcryer]

8. Logging and grazeland. Very very profitable for the poorest of the poor.

They even burn the trees.

[wordpix]

12. yes but who are the poor logging and grazing for? Weyerhauser, McDonald's,

Pacific Northern, Wendy's....who is driving this???

[xchrom]

2. Recommend

[goforit]

3. Industry trumps morals.

[StarsInHerHair]

13. MONEY TRUMPS MORALS

[DCBob]

4. This is sickening.

Logging companies win... the planet loses.

[joshcryer]

9. The wood is often just burned for grazeland and beef.

Which btw the Europeans eat, heartily.

[formercia]

5. It's going to get much worse

As resources become depleted and their value increases.

We, as consumers, are driving the markets and demand for more goods.

[bertman]

6. You think this is bad, just wait until the current food-producing areas fall victim

to the climatic changes coming due to global warming. When that happens--and it already is--new areas will be clear-cut and laid waste by industrial agriculture.

Some of the wealthiest financial groups and nations in the world are already buying up 'future farmland' in anticipation of the coming changes.

REC.

[glinda]

7. And people wonder why the Conservatives are surrounding the Great Lakes....

[Blue_Tires]

10. kick

[wordpix]

11. terrible - these loggers know no bounds and no laws

:cry: RIP, Dinho and beautiful flora and fauna of the Amazon.