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Indigenous Peoples Launch New Occupation on Belo Monte Dam Site

Seven tribes from the Xingu and Tapajós rivers protest violations of right to prior consultation in construction of Amazonian dams...
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Images from the Amazon at the Belo Monte Protest

Hundreds of people from the Xingu and Tapajós river basins began an indefinite protest of the main construction site of...
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Letter from Indigenous Peoples of the Xingu and Tapajós

(Translated from Portuguese)We are the people who live in the rivers where you want to build dams. We are the...
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Experts Expect More Earthquakes in China’s Dam-Choked South

Road damaged by earthquake in Ya’an, Lushan CountySTR/AFP/Getty Images On the morning of April 20th, a deadly earthquake struck Ya’an...
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Beijing Sends a Signal to Chinese Overseas Dam Builders

Press conference on the newly released guidelines. China.org.cn The Chinese Government’s “Guidelines for Environmental Protection in Foreign Investment and Cooperation”...
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Deadly Sins in the Brazilian Amazon

Originally published in Huffington Post Blog Antonia Melo protesting during Rio+20Photo by Brent Millikan The trampling of indigenous rights, military...
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Hydro Industry Shuts Out Critical Voices

Apiaká indigenous activist in BrazilPhoto: Brent Millikan The international hydropower industry is meeting in Ethiopia for their big Africa 2013...
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The Eyes of the World are Once Again on Temaca

The newly elected Governor of Jalisco Jorge Aristóteles Sandoval brought a renewed sense of hope to the communities of Temacapulín,...
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Returning to the Zambezi After 20 Years

Alongside the Zambezi River. Photo by Lori Pottinger It’s been 20 years to the month since I was last bobbing...
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Amazon Tribe Threatens to Wage War Amid Row over Brazilian Dam Project

Munduruku leaders hit out at ‘betrayal’ after government pushes on with dam construction without community’s consent This article originally appeared...