Day 158 - 19 Jul 95 - Page 32


     
     1   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Had you better just look at Mr. Shane and see
     2        how he brings his book in, if he does?
     3
     4   MR. MORRIS:  I have not had time to look at him.
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     6   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  He is in section L4.
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     8   MR. MORRIS:  He talks about tropical forest.  In fact, he talks
     9        about tropical rain forest, as well as tropical forest, in
    10        his first two paragraphs.  He seems to use them
    11        interchangeably in the first two paragraphs.  Do you want
    12        me to refer to anything there, or would you accept he does
    13        refer to them interchangeably? (Pause)
    14
    15   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  No, do not address me any more on
    16        that.  What I was looking for is the extent to which
    17        Mr. Shane in his statement involves or brings in Hoofprints
    18        on the Forest.
    19
    20   MR. MORRIS:  Which he does in the fourth paragraph.
    21
    22   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  He refers to having made the report.
    23
    24   MR. MORRIS:  He says it was accepted by the US Department of
    25        State in March 1980.
    26
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    28
    29   MR. MORRIS:  There is one other thing.  I think I was going
    30        through Mr. Monbiot's statement.  Yes.  If we go back to
    31        Mr. Monbiot's statement, please?
    32
    33   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    34
    35   MR. MORRIS:  Point G, on the second page of his
    36        statement: "Social impact.  Cattle ranching in the Amazon
    37        and elsewhere in Brazil has significant social costs."
    38        Then it goes on about the effect of cattle ranching on land
    39        ownership and what happens to people that used to live
    40        there.
    41
    42        He then, at the end that paragraph, says: "Colonists pushed
    43        off their land by ranchers outside the Amazon are in many
    44        cases forced to travel further into the forest to start a
    45        new frontier, causing deforestation."
    46
    47        Then he goes on: "Some of the land that ranchers have
    48        seized belongs, according to Brazilian law, to the
    49        indigenous inhabitants of the forest, the Indians.  In many
    50        Indian reserves, the ranchers have taken over large tracts 
    51        of land." 
    52 
    53        Then he talks about the effect this has on Indian
    54        communities -- deleterious effects that is.
    55
    56        Then, over the page, he says: "Nearly all the ranch land in
    57        Brazil previously belonged either to Indians or to peasants
    58        who were displaced either by force or by economic change
    59        designed to favour large landowners."
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