Amazon Watershed

This article is about the book. For the geographic region in South America, see Amazon basin.

Amazon Watershed : the new environmental investigation is a 1991 book by British writer and environmental and political activist George Monbiot.

Amazon Watershed

Cover of the first edition
Author	George Monbiot
Language	English
Subjects	Deforestation, The Amazon, Logging
Published	London
Publisher	Michael Joseph, Abacus (1992)
Publication date	1991
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	374
ISBN	0349101620
Preceded by	Poisoned Arrows
Followed by	No Man's Land: An Investigative Journey Through Kenya and Tanzania

Synopsis

The book is an investigation into the expulsion of peasants from their homes and their forced relocation to the Amazon. Military police attempt to kill Monbiot as he exposes a vast military project opening up the area to logging and deforestation. He tracks timber cut illegally from Indian reserves all the way back to retailers in the United Kingdom. According to the publishers, Monbiot also "examines the role of the British and American governments in promoting, wittingly or otherwise, this great ecological catastrophe".^[1]

Reception

The book won the Natural World Book Prize, described as "the premier environmental book prize in the UK" in 1991.