seringueiro

English translation: rubber tapper

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Portuguese term or phrase:	seringueiro
English translation:	rubber tapper
Entered by:	zabrowa

01:29 Apr 18, 2005

Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Science - Botany

Portuguese term or phrase: seringueiro

Is there a better word for a person with this profession than “latex extractor”?
CONTEXT
acompanhado por cinco índios Aikanã e um seringueiro;

zabrowa KudoZ activity Questions: 1684 (1 open) (25 closed without grading) Answers: 13
Local time: 04:22

rubber tapper

Explanation:
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Brazilian environmental activist Senator Marina Silva to discuss ...... Together, the two fought to improve conditions for the seringueiro (rubber tapper) and other traditional rainforest populations. ...
www.utexas.edu/opa/news/00newsreleases/ nr_200003/nr_silva000323.html - 13k -

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Chico Mendes - [ Traduzir esta página ]
... I want to remain alive to save the Amazon. Speak, Chico!* ... proposal is a
way defended by the rubber tappers and Indians of protecting the Amazon, ...
www.chicomendes.org/en/chicomendes22.php?print=1 - 11k - Em cache - Páginas Semelhantes

Native American Indian Cultures - the Kaxinawa Indians - [ Traduzir esta página ]
... Hundreds of tappers, Kaxinawa Indians and other Amazon dwellers make organic
... (Association of the Kaxinawá Rubber Tappers of the Jordão River) ...
indian-cultures.com/Cultures/kaxinawa.html - 14k - Em cache - Páginas Semelhantes

The Rubber Tappers | Bullfrog Films - [ Traduzir esta página ]
... Rubber tappers had made peace with the Indians and learned forest survival
... The Indians - The displaced Indian tribes of the Amazon rainforest. ...
www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/dodc5.html - 18k

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Sormane Gomes
United States
Local time: 22:22

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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

5 +8

rubber tapper

Sormane Gomes

rubber-gatherer

António Ribeiro

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3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +8

rubber tapper

Sormane Gomes
United States
Local time: 22:22
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

3 hrs confidence:

rubber-gatherer

Explanation:
outra sugestão.

Julien & Sam Bryan
... Francis Thompson, 1961 portraying a serengueiro rubber gatherer), one of the
most positive outcomes of this philosophy was his decision to distribute ...
www.afana.org/iff.htm

KULINA :: Encyclopedia :: Indigenous Peoples in Brazil :: ISA
... Now they live in houses built on pillars, following the regional style of
Amazonian rubber-gatherer dwellings. The floorboards are made of paxiuba palm, ...
www.socioambiental.org/pib/epienglish/kulina/soc.shtm

Amazon Life - Economy - Rubber tree Extractivism
... In the private lands, the rubber gatherer rents a certain area of the forest by
... has 100 to 120 trees, where rubber gatherer work collecting latex. ...
library.thinkquest.org/20248/ext3.html

Journey Into Amazonia -- Powerful Plants
... Bolivian rubber gatherer tapping Hevea brasiliensis for its white latex.
Seringueira is one of the most important plants of the Amazon Valley and is ...
www.pbs.org/journeyintoamazonia/plants.html

António Ribeiro
Local time: 12:22
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 12

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