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Take a virtual field trip with Google Earth! Google Earth is a free, online application that uses satellite imagery to allow the user to zoom across the globe in a realistic, virtual environment. Downloading Google Earth is free at http://www.earth.google.com. An overview manual is available by clicking here... Google Earth Overview (342.0K)
To continue: - Make sure you have the Google Earth software installed and running. - Copy the following latitude and longitude and paste into the "Fly to" field under the Search tab. - Hit “Enter” for Google Earth to take you to the specified coordinates, then come back here and read the following overview.
Latitude/Longitude: -4.00967, -54.9682
Roads provide access for land migrants. Even at very high altitude, you can see the fishbone pattern where deforested patches line lateral roads that branch off from main highways. There have been many clashes between native people, farmers, and ranchers over who owns land in this turbulent and chaotic frontier region. The Landless Workers Movement reports that between 19985 and 2000 more than 1,237 rural workers were killed in clashes with loggers and ranchers. In 2005, Sister Dorothy Stang, an American nun who had been working on development for the rural poor was also murdered. Sister Dorothy, who had been trying to prevent attacks on settlements, frequently reported human rights abuses, and she was teaching locals how to live in the forest sustainably. She was assassinated by pistoleiros (gunmen) hired by a rancher near Anapu, about 350 km east of the spot we’ve marked on Google Earth.
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