Day 286 - 24 Oct 96 - Page 17


     
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     2   MR. RAMPTON:   It is way over to the west, my Lord.
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     4   MR. MORRIS:   Acre was the area that was opened up, I think, in
     5        the '70s.  A lot of destruction took place on the very west
     6        of the map.
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     8   MR. RAMPTON:   If your Lordship has the province marked Rondonia
     9        and follows the main road BR 364 west-north-west you get to
    10        the province called Acre, which is in the far west of the
    11        country next door to Peru.
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    13   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I am being as blind as usual.  I can just
    14        sort of see a grey area.
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    16   MR. RAMPTON:   Does your Lordship see Rio Grande?
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    18   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I can see where Rondonia is written.
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    20   MR. RAMPTON:   If your Lordship takes the BR 364 from Porto Veho
    21        and follows it to the border of Peru, your Lordship sees
    22        Acre as the last part of the chain.
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    24   MR. MORRIS:   It is as I pointed out.  It is just here.  Just
    25        here.  (Indicates)
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    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   Yes, I see.  Yes.
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    29   MR. MORRIS:   And I think Sue Branford had said that she was in
    30        the area of Pontes a Lacerda, she was analysing the supply
    31        routes along the BR, what is the BR170, or around Pontes a
    32        Lacerda and becomes the BR364 when it goes further west.
    33        That goes to Cuiaba.  It is part of a whole supply route to
    34        Cuiaba, Cuiaba was the kind of key, simply the key meeting
    35        place for supply bringing trucks in from ex-tropical forest
    36        areas that were being opened up for that purpose.
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    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   Thank you.  (Pause)
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    40   MR. MORRIS:   The other point I want to make about the Cotter
    41        map, Sue Branford on page 30, line 25, says it was
    42        underestimating the extent of the deforestation, and
    43        I think Charles Secrett made the same point.  This is the
    44        Brazil one.  Of course, in any case, it does not present
    45        the complexity of forest types outside the main block
    46        identified on the map, and as we have heard from all the
    47        witnesses that there are huge areas of rainforest and
    48        tropical forest outside of the main blocks, if you like, of
    49        such forest, and indeed the opposite is the case, within
    50        the huge blocks of what are identified as rainforest or 
    51        tropical forest there are areas of different vegetation. 
    52        But one of the most important identified extensions of the 
    53        main blocks of Amazonian rainforest is along the
    54        tributaries of the Amazon, such as the River Araguaia.
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    56        Can I just say the reference to Acre in Sue Branford's
    57        evidence is on page 5 of her evidence and in fact if we go
    58        over the page she moves on to Sinop and how she witnessed
    59        the opening up of the Sinop region.  She went along the
    60        original dirt track which eventually became the main supply

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