Chico Mendes: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Adrian Cowell, The Decade of Destruction: The Crusade to Save the Amazon Rain Forest (1990); Andrew Revkin, The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest (1990).

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Anniversary information added. Dec 18, 2025
Anniversary information added. Dec 11, 2025
First paragraph modernization. May 07, 2024
Media added. Dec 15, 2022
Add new Web site: Moral Heroes - Biography of Chico Mendes. Dec 24, 2015
Add new Web site: PBS - Journey into Amazonia - Chico Mendes of Brazil. Dec 24, 2015
Add new Web site: Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade - Chico Mendes: 25 years of a brutal killing. Dec 24, 2015
Add new Web site: The Guardian - Brazil salutes Chico Mendes 25 years after his murder. Dec 23, 2015
New article added. Dec 13, 2013
New bibliography added. Dec 13, 2013
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