rubber tapper

They were worked as rubber tappers and some are normal workers.

From 1889 to 1894, they were harassed by rubber tappers.

Rubber tappers were finding themselves pushed out of their lands.

They did, however, attract international attention to the plight of the rubber tappers.

Most of the residents were rubber tappers before the 1990s.

In the 1970s, he joined the rubber tappers of the forest.

An hour later, a posse of rubber tappers headed out to the spot.

Members would approach rubber tappers individually trying gentle persuasion to get them on their side.

The rubber tappers would stage mass demonstrations blocking logging road.

Most families in the village was rubber tappers.

Francisco Mendes thus fought not only the rubber tappers' battle, but the whole planet's.

Soon after the Government confirmed its status as a reserve in June, four rubber tappers were killed.

Most Chinese of older generation work in the rubber estate as rubber tappers.

"It is happening in the Amazonian rain forests where local rubber tappers are threatened.

When the first meeting of this new union was held in 1985, in the capital Brasilia, rubber tappers from all over the country came.

Traditional rubber tappers were being removed from homes and evicted from their lands.

Most of the 15,000 inhabitants earned meagre incomes as mining workers and rubber tappers.

Making their living in the jungle, the rubber tappers often stalled or stopped ranchers who wanted to turn virgin forest into pasture.

Most people in Jeli work as rubber tappers.

Other victims are rubber tappers who live in the forests claimed and burned by ranchers and farmers.

Besides, he said, the young man apparently wanted police protection because he feared retaliation from rubber tappers and others in the region.

They were mainly rubber tappers, pig farmers and padi planters.

Most villagers are rubber tappers at their six ekar rubber trees.

Significant amount of Indian-Malaysian work as rubber tappers in rubber estate.

Mr. Mendes was a full-time tapper at 11, the son and grandson of rubber tappers.