Day 158 - 19 Jul 95 - Page 23
1 Plaintiffs have copies; they should have. As I say, this
2 is the book written by our witness, our expert, from the
3 United States. I have the additional copy of the book here
4 which was based on the research -----
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6 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What is his name?
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8 MR. MORRIS: Douglas Shane. He says this book was prepared over
9 a nine month period from 1979 to 1980 as a consultant
10 report to the Office of Environmental Affairs, US
11 Department of State, based upon his investigations on the
12 ground for his report. If we look on page 71 in the top
13 right-hand corner, while we are on this, the fifth line
14 down at the end the sentence reads: "The Brazilian
15 Institute for Forestry Development (IBDF) has reported that
16 in the years 1966 to 1975 cattle ranching was responsible
17 for 38 per cent of all deforestation, followed by
18 colonisation with 30.7 per cent, highway construction was
19 26.8 per cent, and timber exploitation with 4.4 per
20 cent."
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22 I will come on to the colonisation matter when I refer to
23 our witness expert's ------
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25 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Remind me, are you hoping to call
26 Mr. Shane ---
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28 MR. MORRIS: We are hoping.
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30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: -- actually into the witness box?
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32 MR. MORRIS: We are hoping to, yes, and Mr. Montbio as well.
33 That last quote, obviously, would verify the section of our
34 pleading related to 1966 to 1975. If we look at the page
35 112, this section talks of a release in 1980 of a study
36 conducted by Brazil's National Institute of Space
37 Research. At the bottom it seems to refer to 1975 and
38 1978, so I think the figures there are related to those
39 years. "The study, which utilized Landsat imagery,
40 concluded that 1.55 per cent of Brazil's Amazon Basin ...
41 had already been deforested. The new information, which
42 conflicts with the higher four per cent deforestation
43 figure issued earlier by Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture,
44 revealed that the major area of deforestation was at the
45 Jari Forestry and Agriculture Enterprises site where some
46 500 square miles of forest had been cleared. The INPE
47 study also stated that the rates of deforestation between
48 1975 and 1978 were 244 per cent in the Territory of
49 Rondonia", which is on our map, the kind of spar that comes
50 out of the diagonal rain forest area at the centre which is
51 to the left of the word "Mato" in Mato Grosso.
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53 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Which of this, are you saying, is rain forest
54 and which is other kind of forest?
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56 MR. MORRIS: I understand that we are talking about Amizonian
57 tropical forest which is rain forest or mainly rain forest.
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59 MR. RAMPTON: No.
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