Brazil
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Heroes04 entries
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Chico Mendes
Brazil · 1944–1988
Brazilian rubber tapper and union leader who organized nonviolent resistance to protect the Amazon rainforest from deforestation.
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Ernst Götsch
Brazil · 1948–present
Swiss farmer who bought 480 hectares of dead land in Bahia and turned it into forest that produces cocoa, bringing back springs that had dried decades earlier.
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Marina Silva
Brazil · 1958–present
Brazilian environmentalist and politician from Acre who fought alongside Chico Mendes and became Minister of the Environment.
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Sebastiao Salgado
Brazil · 1944–present
Brazilian photographer who, with his wife Lelia, reforested over 1,500 acres of degraded Atlantic Forest at Instituto Terra.