Day 239 - 23 Apr 96 - Page 06

     
     1   Q.   Then there is a statement about cattle ranching in the
     2        cerrado?
     3        A.   No, I do not have the last two.
     4
     5   MR. RAMPTON:  I do not know what has happened. I think what has
     6        probably happened is the Defendants have presented them to
     7        us in Court, probably in the usual way, improperly.  I have
     8        got the one copy that we were given which of course I have
     9        written on.
    10
    11   MR. MORRIS:   It is all right, we have a spare copy.
    12
    13   MS. STEEL:  I have a spare copy of the cerrado one.  (Same
    14        handed)
    15
    16   MR. MORRIS:  There is the other one as well.
    17
    18   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You start on statement number 1.  Would you
    19        mind making a photocopy of those?
    20
    MS. STEEL:  They are spare.
    22
    23   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Could you put them in the back of divider 3,
    24        Mr. Monbiot.
    25
    26   MR. MORRIS:   Do you have all those statements?
    27
    28   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   I do, yes.
    29
    30   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  I will read the first statement through.  If
    31        there is anything incorrect, please stop me and if, at the
    32        end of the paragraph, there is something you need to
    33        clarify, please do.
    34
    35   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Stick to clarification.
    36        A.   Yes, of course.
    37
    38   Q.   Elaboration is not necessary unless you have got some
    39        particular point, particularly a point of fact, which you
    40        would like to add.
         A.   Right.
    42
    43   Q.   Yes, Mr. Morris?
    44
    45   MR. MORRIS: "Expertise.  I am a writer, broadcaster and academic
    46        currently Visiting Fellow of the Green College Centre for
    47        Environmental Policy and Understanding, Green College,
    48        Oxford.  I was an Open Scholar of Brasenose College,
    49        Oxford, where I studied Zoology.  On graduating I joined
    50        the BBC's Natural History Unit as radio producer, making 
    51        natural history and environmental programmes.  I left the 
    52        Natural History Unit to work briefly as a current affairs 
    53        producer and presenter for the BBC's World Service, before
    54        leaving the BBC to research and write my first book.
    55
    56        My second, Amazon Watershed, is of relevance to this case.
    57        I spent approximately two years in Brazil, over the course
    58        of seven journeys (1989-1992), investigating the causes of
    59        deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.  The book won the
    60        Sir Peter Kent Award for Conservation Writing.  On reading