Plans for the São Luiz do Tapajós dam in Pará, Brazil, have led to increased illegal squatting and illicit timber harvesting. Homestead farmers fear for their future.
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Tapajós dam puts newly discovered species, indigenous people at risk
Eight new mammal species were found at the Sao Luiz do Tapajós dam building site, which threatens to become Brazil‘s most controversial hydro project ever.
Brazil is scaling back its protected area network. What is the impact?
How much of Brazil‘s rising deforestation rate in the Amazon is attributable to the legal process known as Protected Area Downgrading, Downsizing and Degazettement (PADDD)?
Brazil’s Congress moves ahead to end nation’s environmental safeguards
Constitutional amendment would abolish current federal requirements for environmental assessments of public works projects, such as Amazon dams.
Booming soy industry could threaten Brazil’s climate commitments
Soy production is booming — but researchers are warning that the soy industry’s rise could be the downfall of Brazil‘s climate commitments.
Iriri River families fight to keep their Amazonian homelands
As new ecological stations and other preserves are set up across Brazil, rural colonos and beiradeiros may be forced from their long-time homesteads.
Amazon mega-dam suspended, providing hope for indigenous and biodiversity
The São Luiz do Tapajós mega-dam has been suspended by Brazilian authorities in a surprise turnaround that recognizes the presence of indigenous territories in the dam’s vicinity.
Iriri River folk may be forced from their homes to protect their environment
The colonos and beiradeiros live sustainably, but a new ecological station created around them could force these rural people from their lands.
BNDES: a bank loans billions to tame South America’s wild waters
Brazil’s development bank is investing heavily in a plan to build huge hydroelectric dams in the Amazon and across South America.
Indigenous and non-indigenous cultures, once hostile to each other, now mingle
Xipaya Indians and beiradeiros (river people), are finding a life in common in the village of Tukaya on the remote reaches of the Iriri River.