Binka Le Breton

Writer and lecturer on environmental and human rights

Binka lives on a rainforest farm, runs the Iracambi Rainforest Research Center, lectures and broadcasts internationally on rainforest and human rights topics, is president of Amigos de Iracambi, and also finds time to research and write books. She is currently working with Brazilian and American colleagues on the development of a feature film. If you want to find out more about any of the work that she does, or you would like her to come and give a lecture for your organization, please contact her at:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Binka's new book, Where the Road Ends: a Home in the Brazilian Rainforest, gives readers the inside story of the founding of Iracambi - the backwoods backstory. Published by St Martins Press, New York, in May 2010 it has received rave reviews from the New York Times, the Washington Post and Associated Press.

Binka's previous book, The Greatest Gift, 2008, Doubleday, New York tells the story of Sister Dorothy Stang, assassinated in the Amazon forest in February 2005 in her battle to protect family farmers threatened by illegal loggers. During her US tour in March 2008 Binka was the guest of WAMU's Diane Rehm show, broadcast nationally and internationally through National Public Radio (you can hear the podcast from this link) and also appeared in New York on the Joey Reynolds Show. You can review the book on the Doubleday site:http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385522182, download it on Kindle, or get the audio version (read by Binka) from the publisher, or from Amazon.com. The Portuguese edition, A Maior Dádiva, was published by Globo, São Paulo.

Binka's other books

Voices from the Amazon, 1993, Kumarian Press, tells the story of the Amazon forest as seen through the eyes of the forest people themselves: the Indians, rubber tappers, loggers, ranchers, goldminers and the river people. Here's where you can learn about the complex issues in the conservation/development debate without getting bitten by mosquitoes and soaked by Amazon rain!

A Land to Die For, 1997, Clarity Press, is the story of a brave man murdered for his beliefs. In Brazil's fierce land wars, Padre Josimo stood up for the dispossessed in the remote regions of the Amazon forest, and paid for it with his life. The Portuguese version, Todos Sabiam, was published by Loyola, São Paulo, in May 2000.

Rainforest, 1997, Longmans, London, introduces children of rainforest countries to their forest heritage.

Trapped: Modern Day Slavery in the Brazilian Amazon, 2003, Kumarian Press, Bloomfield, CT, USA, (with a forward by Archbishop Desmond Tutu) was given a Judges Award in 2004 by World Hunger Year of New York. These awards are given for outstanding coverage of hunger and poverty-related issues. It was published in Portuguese,Italian and French, and if you want to buy any of Binka's books please click on the Amazon logo to earn a referral percentage for Iracambi.