The sky stretches far and wide above cowgirls—or jillaroos—on a cattle ranch in Queensland.
They also have a place in Los Angeles with rooms for Isabella and Connor, and they own a 110-acre cattle ranch in Australia that has four alpacas.
But its expansion has pushed cattle ranches further into the jungle, and started itself to encroach on the forest.
Bertin, one of Brazil's - and the world's - major suppliers of leather and beef also agreed to meet Greenpeace this month to negotiate how to prevent cattle ranching from driving deforestation.
A vaquero on a cattle ranch in Mato Grosso.
PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN recently invited a group of businessmen to a cattle ranch for a retreat to discuss how to generate faster economic growth.
Howard Lyman is a fourth generation cattle rancher. In 1979 he developed cancer in the spinal cord.
"There is no longer any way of hiding," sighed Onofre, a 70-year-old cattle rancher who moved to the region in the 1970s seeking his fortune and admits to having destroyed huge tracts of rainforest.
Guzman was 19 when she met Varela. He told her he was a cattle rancher.
"I'm NOT a tree-hugger," insists Susan Luebbe, a lifelong cattle rancher, "but if I have to buddy up with tree-huggers to stop this, then so be it."
Land in the Amazon Basin is routinely cleared for cattle ranching.
Cows wore trails into the pasture as they made their way to a regular drinking hole on the edge of a cattle ranch bordering native forest.
At present Wyoming raises only about $3, 000 a year from the land by leasing it to a cattle rancher.
And in particular, one of the feelings being on the cattle ranch, small cattle ranch in the middle of nowhere.
