People started to clear the land for farms and ranches, which led to disappearing of the rubber trees,and now there's conflict between, who and who? (rubber tappers and ______)
Rubber Tappers and newcomers.
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The rubber Tappers want to go on making a living in the rainforest, what is their plan to do so?
Stop the widespread clearing of trees.
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Name one type of rubber product that the Rubber Tappers use the sap to dry, then make.
Erasers or bike/car tires.
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When you take sap from the trees, what doesn't it do to the trees?
Harm them.
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In the 1960s, the government of Brazil decided that there were better ways to use the rainforest, it encouraged people to clear the forest for, what?
Farms and ranches.
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What do the Rubber Tappers want to go on making from the rainforest?
A living.
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In which years did the Rubber Tappers first move to the Amazon?
In the 1870s.
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After the Rubber Tappers are done collecting the sap, they put them in these.
Cups.
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In the 1960s, who decided that there were better ways to use the rainforest?
The Goverenment of Brazil.
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What do the Rubber Tappers believe the government should do for their activities?
Protect them.
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Rubber Tappers were hired to do what on rubber tree plantations?
They were hired to work.
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How do the Rubber Tappers remove sap from the trees, explain what they do? (there's an image of the process on page 181)
They make diagonal cuts in the bark of the trees.
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Because of his activities, becoming a leader in the fight to preserve the rainforest,he was murdered, who is he?
Chico Mendes.
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What have the Rubber Tappers ask the government to create in the rainforest?(protected __________)
Protected reserves.
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Chico Mendes' death brought what kind of attention to the Rubber Tapper's cause?