Rubber Tappers are poor people of the Eastern Brazil in the 1800's.In the 1800's , rubber tappers taught poor people to take out rubber from rubber trees.In the 1960's, the government developed the Amazon too bring wealth to the country, they hired the rubber tappers to work on the rubber tree plantations in the rainforest.Most of the plantations were abandoned , some stayed to make their living in the rainforest. The Rubber Tappers interest in the rainforest is to use rubber to make rubber products to the Amazon and to the country.