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Killing for land / a coproduction of Central Independent Television, Universidade Católica de Goiás, and WGBH/Boston for Frontline ; written by Adrian Cowell, Michael Kirk ; produced by Roger James ; directed by Adrian Cowell.

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This program follows the land wars that have broken out as millions of poor farmers migrate to massive ranches carved out of the rainforest by rich speculators with the aid of tax exemptions and government loans. As squatters they begin to work the land until the absentee landlords hire gunmen to fr...

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Online Access: Streaming Video (via Alexander Street)
Corporate Authors: Bullfrog Films, Central Independent Television, Universidade Católica de Goiás, WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
Other Authors: Cowell, Adrian, James, Roger, Kirk, Michael, Lyman, Will, 1948-, Astrausky, Jim
Other title:Series subtitle: Saga of the Amazon rainforest
Frontline (Television program)
Format: Electronic Video
Language:English
Published: Oley, PA : Bullfrog Films, c1990.
Series:Decade of destruction ; 2.
Subjects:
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Amazon River Region.
Deforestation > Amazon River Region.
Forest conservation > Amazon River Region.
Rain forest ecology > Amazon River Region.
Amazon River Region > Environmental conditions.
Human ecology > Amazon River Region.
Squatters > Amazon River Region.
Deforestation.
Ecology.
Forest conservation.
Human ecology.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Rain forest ecology.
Squatters.
Amazon River Region.
Documentary television programs.
Environmental television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.

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