Day 158 - 19 Jul 95 - Page 22
1 On the page regarding natural vegetation, there is a
2 specific map headed: "Deforestation and Economic
3 Development in Brazilian Amazonia" which would be
4 particularly relevant and helpful in this application. The
5 oval shaped dark area in the middle of the map is defined
6 as "tropical rain forest". In fact, all the dark bits are
7 defined as "tropical rain forest", except for the slightly
8 lighter bits, which are light green on the original, which
9 are defined as "vegetation other than rain forest
10 dominant". The only places they occur are just at the very
11 south, just north of the frontier, the little bit sticking
12 out above the word "Brasilia".
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14 The very light shading in the rest of Amazonia is in the
15 key defined as "Deforestation over 50 per cent of
16 rain forest lost".
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18 MR. RAMPTON: Does it say when?
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20 MR. MORRIS: You can see it as well as me, Mr. Rampton.
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. Does it say when? You have the whole
23 book, you see.
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25 MR. MORRIS: Sorry. I did give a copy, but it had not got
26 through to Mr. Rampton.
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28 It is our reasonable belief that the whole of the Amazon
29 frontier, certainly up to the parts which are defined as
30 "vegetation other than rain forest dominant" -- which
31 still implies that it includes rain forest, part of it --
32 would have been rain forest originally and would revert
33 back to rain forest if allowed to do so as being the
34 natural inclination.
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36 Comparing it with the McDonald's map, if we do, this would
37 bring, we believe, the tropical rain forest area right down
38 through half, more than half, of the horizontal lines in
39 Mato Grosso, which they have admitted getting beef from
40 that region.
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42 Do not forget that while the Barretos plant was accepting
43 something within 1,000 kilometres, by their own admission,
44 which went into Mato Grosso, the three other plants, the
45 red blobs furthest north, are all much closer to that
46 region than Barretos itself; and that, according to the
47 Collins' map, is the whole of Mato Grosso, apart from a
48 small area of the very south and to the very east just
49 above Brasilia, has been deforested rain forest, Amazon
50 tropical forest. So, that is that.
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52 If you keep the map in front of you, but if I can hand up
53 extracts from Hoofprints on the Forest, which is a book
54 written by our witness -----
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56 MR. JUSTICE BELL: These two pages I will hand back to you,
57 because I have my own in my room.
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59 MR. MORRIS: I will just hand over two pages of a disclosed
60 document, "Hoofprints on the Forest". I believe the
