Word: amazoned
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...would have been unheard of 20 years ago for people [in America] to be concerned about the Amazon River Basin," says Wilson, "Now, it regularly makes the cover of Newsweek and Time magazine...
Protector for the Amazon...
Jose Lutzenberger, an ecologically oriented agronomist, is Brazil's most unflinching environmentalist. Lutzenberger aroused the anger of the administration of former President Jose Sarney by daring to declare publicly that the rest of the world had a legitimate interest in the fate of the Amazon rain forest. "If you set your homes on fire, it will threaten the homes of your neighbors," Lutzenberger noted with simple eloquence. Because of his reputation for outspokenness, the international environmental community was dumbfounded in March, when newly inaugurated President Fernando Collor de Mello named Lutzenberger Secretary of the Environment...
...first priority will be to halt the destruction of the Amazon, but he has also vowed to protect Brazil's last remaining Atlantic forests and gravely threatened savannas. Some Brazilians are concerned that the new Secretary might be too inflexible and idealistic for the rough realities of government, but Lutzenberger, 63, calls himself a "possibilist." The Gaia Foundation, a private organization he set up, finances problem-solving environmental projects. Example: an effort to help poor settlers improve agricultural techniques so that they do not have to clear as much forest land to produce enough crops...
Inaugurated three weeks ago, Collor used the trip to signal that he will make environmental reform one of his administration's major goals. But pro- Indian groups contend that Collor must go much further and ban all miners from the Amazon. Says Claudia Andujar, an Indian-rights activist: "The cancer is still in the area. The miners will return and destroy more forests, pollute more rivers and kill more Indians...