I was at home on the evening of December 22nd, 1988 when I got the call from Brazil telling me that Chico Mendes had been murdered a few hours earlier. [pullquote]Chico Mendes’s ideas, his story, and indigenous and forest communities’ fight for land rights that he gave his life for have changed the Amazon, Brazil … Continue reading 28 years after Chico Mendes’s death, four environmental challenges still facing the Amazon