Mauro Antonio Moraes Victor |
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Mauro is an authority on the rainforests of Latin America and is a passionate environmental activist. He was the director general of the Forestry Institute of Sao Paulo and he works now as a forestry consultant. |
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He helped to draw up Agenda 21, the comprehensive plan of action adopted at the U.N. Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and he has advised the U.N’.s Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome and in Santiago. |
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He was one of the leaders of a successful campaign to have the Green Belt of Sao Paulo declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1994. This was an epic struggle against government plans to build a ring road through what remains of the once-dense forests on the fringes of the southern hemisphere’s biggest city. |
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Mauro has 20 years’ experience in the management of tropical forests in Central America and the Caribbean. |
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