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 -----
     5
     6   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What is his name?
     7
     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."
    21
    22        I will come on to the colonisation matter when I refer to
    23        our witness expert's ------
    24
    25   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Remind me, are you hoping to call
    26        Mr. Shane  ---
    27
    28   MR. MORRIS:  We are hoping.
    29
    30   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  -- actually into the witness box?
    31
    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. 
    52 
    53   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Which of this, are you saying, is rain forest
    54        and which is other kind of forest?
    55
    56   MR. MORRIS:  I understand that we are talking about Amizonian
    57        tropical forest which is rain forest or mainly rain forest.
    58
    59   MR. RAMPTON:  No.
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