Is it true that the people of Mundurucu of the Brazilian Amazon collected latex from wild rubber trees for traders?

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The above statement is True.
People of Mundurucu of the Brazilian Amazon collected latex from wild rubber trees for traders. While many people lost out after the colonial forest departments took over the forests, some people benefited from the new trade opportunities that had opened up. Many communities abandoned their traditional occupations to trade in forest products. In the mid-nineteenth century, with the growing demand for rubber, the Mundurucu people of the Brazilian Amazon, who lived in villages on high ground and cultivated manioc, began to collect latex from wild rubber trees to supply traders.

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