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...Collor named Jose Lutzenberger, one of the world's foremost champions of rain-forest preservation, head of a new environment secretariat. The President also vowed to reverse decades of untrammeled development that destroyed 415,000 sq km (160,000 sq. mi.) -- an area the size of Iraq -- of the Amazon rain forest. He blew up airstrips used by gold miners who had invaded Yanomami Indian lands in the country's far north and made recognition of native territorial claims a top priority. The most visible symbol of environmental progress could be seen by satellite: the rate of destruction...
Even the slowdown in Amazon destruction, critics say, owes less to Collor's policies than to a sagging economy. Says Willem Groenefeld, who runs an environmental institute in the Amazonian state of Rondonia: "Nobody has any money to cut the forest down...
...MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM IN THE AMAZON FOREST, Joao Caetano Theater, Rio, May 15 to Dec. 15 In this elaborate production directed by German filmmaker Werner Herzog, Puck is transported to the contemporary Brazilian rain forest. The play opens with a Herzog film documentary on the ecological devastation of Kuwait...
...AMAZON ART," Museum of Modern Art, Rio, June 5-28 This eclectic array consists of works by 26 artists from 14 countries who were deposited in far- flung corners of the Amazon and told to use local materials to depict the region's natural beauty and environmental ills...
FOREST OF THE AMAZON, Municipal Theater, Rio, June 1-21 Set to music by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, Forest of the Amazon is the story of a white goddess who falls in love with a rubber tapper, angering both the Amazon tribe that adores her and the forest itself. The ballet, described by choreographer Dalal Achcar as "a poetic fantasy," is an expanded version of one she originally created for Margot Fonteyn...