Jose Lutzenberger
José Antônio Lutzenberger was a Brazilian ambientalist. He was born in December 17, 1926 in Porto Alegre, the capital city of southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul. He graduated in agronomy in 1950 and after 1971 joined the environmentalist movement of that country. Often considered as a pioneer in this area, he founded the Agapan, an environmentalist organization. He became famous for defending the environment together with Magda Renner and others while the military government in Brazil narrowed severely the civil liberties. He was appointed to the Enviroment Ministry in the Fernando Collor federal government, in the early 1990´s.
He died in May 14th, 2002, at the age of 75 and was buried as he wished: naked, without a coffin, close to a tree in a farm he recovered from exhaustion, the Rincão Gaia, in Pantano Grande, also in the Rio Grande do Sul state.
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