Word: mitraud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sylvia Mitraud, a Sao Paulo university student,was among those seduced. The daughter of a Brazilian economic-planning-ministry bureaucrat, she had been brought up to care more about her Portuguese enunciation than the environment. But Mendes' death taught her that the deadly tension between land and development was costing Brazil its future. "I realized that if we were going to survive, we couldn't continue with unsound environmental development," says Mitraud. Today the 32-year-old is a tireless activist for the World Wildlife Fund. On the road more than half of each month, Mitraud, who is single, shuttles...