Talk:Amazon rubber cycle

A fact from Amazon rubber cycle appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 August 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the South American rubber boom ceased in 1912 when plantations in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and tropical Africa grown from seed smuggled out of Brazil 36 years earlier began producing rubber?

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Should this article be moved to a title that reflects that it is about a Brazilian rubber boom - rather than a worldwide phenomenon? --Peta 04:04, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would suggest instead that the experience of other countries be added to this article. This article is a translation of the Portuguese Wikipedia article, which only discusses Brazil. However, the Spanish one is such a translation but then adds information about Peru. That should be added here, plus information about Bolivia. Rigadoun (talk) 03:39, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am about to move this article to the new title, "Amazon Rubber Boom". The article acknowledges that countries other then Brazil were affected, but it is very clear that this article is not really about rubber booms in Southeast Asia or anywhere else. Moreover, the term "Amazon Rubber Boom" seems to be a common one in the titles of other works, e.g. [1] [2]

Sentence from lead[edit]

I've removed the following sentence from the lead, as it is grammatically incorrect and I don't know what it's trying to say, because the article is about to be featured in DYK. Suggest it isn't put back without correcting before the article comes off the main page. The lead appears to flow ok without it.

At the same time, the federal territory of Acre, now a state, the territory of which was acquired from Bolivia by purchase for two million pounds sterling in 1903.

Espresso Addict 08:18, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Effects of the rubber boom on indigenous people of the Amazon[edit]

At the moment, this is a very one-sided article, as it discusses the rubber boom in the Amazon (and mostly in Brazil only) from the point of view of the colonial states and western countries.

However, the rubber boom also had a deep and irreversible effect on most of the indigenous people of the Amazon, with many going extinct or suffering from large increases in their numbers due to the incursions of the rubber planters and traders. This happened not only in Brazil, but also in Peru, Ecuador and Columbia. This article needs a separate section for the effects of the boom on indigenous people. -62.78.187.149 (talk) 21:17, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It certainly needs editing and cleaning up. It reads as a strident indictment without historical objectivity,let alone verification, or even references.

Unsourced material about the indigenous people[edit]

There is no source on the part about the indigenous people beeing nearly wiped out because of the rubber boom. The article states that one rubber farm started with 50 000 indian workers, who were rounded up from tribes. Where only 8000 survived. The site used a reference don't say anything about this. I think we can agree on the fact that indians were mistreated, but the numbers and the facts in this article don't seem very truthful. Olehal09 (talk) 03:37, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think "we" can agree to no such thing. Just like the assertion in the article to which you object, no proof/reference is offered! Tapered (talk) 04:46, 29 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oops. Olehal09 is permanently blocked. Tapered (talk) 04:48, 29 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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