Hydroelectric under construction in Pará is included by WWF in report on violation of sustainability criteria in dam construction.

Hydroelectric under construction in Pará is included by WWF in report on violation of sustainability criteria in dam construction.
Federal agency makes publicly available in its entirety lawsuits against the largest hydroelectric project in progress in the country.
Brazil’s Federal Public Ministry rejected a proposed gold mining project adjacent to a controversial dam site in of the Amazon, reports Amazon Watch, an environmental activist group that is campaigning against both the mine and the dam.
“Giant Otters in the Amazon” is a documentary produced by the BBC that shows the patriarch of a family of river wolves while raising and protecting their cubs in the Manu National Park.
The inhabitants of Moyobamba since three years ago paid a sol (Peruvian currency) in the water bill to fund projects to conserve and restore water sources.
São Félix do Araguaia in Mato Grosso, is a town of 10,625 inhabitants. With one car for every 43 residents, São Félix is a small quiet town, full of bicycles, children playing and old men chating on the sidewalks.
In the World Wetlands Day, the Bolivian Amazon gains a new Ramsar site, near Brazil and Madeira River hydroelectrics.
Mamirauá Reserve, with high biodiversity of terrestrial and aquatic habitats, is one of 11 Ramsar sites in Brazil.
Recurrent droughts and storms kill and damage trees, causing effects that can linger for years: the effects of global warming.
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