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?
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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)
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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.
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20 MR. MORRIS: Which he does in the fourth paragraph.
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: He refers to having made the report.
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24 MR. MORRIS: He says it was accepted by the US Department of
25 State in March 1980.
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27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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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?
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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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.
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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."
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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."
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53 Then he talks about the effect this has on Indian
54 communities -- deleterious effects that is.
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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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