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".
    13
    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".
    17
    18   MR. RAMPTON:  Does it say when?
    19
    20   MR. MORRIS:  You can see it as well as me, Mr. Rampton.
    21
    22   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  Does it say when?  You have the whole
    23        book, you see.
    24
    25   MR. MORRIS:  Sorry.  I did give a copy, but it had not got
    26        through to Mr. Rampton.
    27
    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.
    35
    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.
    41
    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. 
    51 
    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 -----
    55
    56   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  These two pages I will hand back to you,
    57        because I have my own in my room.
    58
    59   MR. MORRIS:  I will just hand over two pages of a disclosed
    60        document, "Hoofprints on the Forest".  I believe the

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