(31 Jul 1988) Chico Mendes, one of half a million rubber tappers who live in the Amazon jungle of Brazil, has led his 30,000 strong union to victory over ranchers destroying rain forest to create pasture for their cattle. Mendes took his case to the US which warned the inter-American Development Bank (IDB) that it would cut all funding for its projects if Brazil wasn't forced to comply with environmental safeguards in the state of Acre, where the bank is financing the construction of a road