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Hydropower: a threat to the Maranon River in Peru?

By Annika McGinnis 25 de July de 201614 de September de 2020

More than 20 hydroelectric plants designed to operate in this Amazon river could displace more than 40,000 people from riverside areas

After five months, body of activist murdered was found

By Giovanny Vera 27 de June de 201614 de September de 2020

Nilce de Souza Magalhaes, militant of Movement of People Affected by Dams in Porto Velho, Brazil, was murdered in January and her body had not been found.

Amazonian catfish’s 5,000-mile migration endangered by dams

By Rollin Hu 24 de June de 201614 de September de 2020

More than 400 dams are planned on being built, are being built or have been built in the Amazon Basin. These dams disrupt the impressive migration of Amazonian catfish, a commercially valuable fish and apex predator in the environment.

Brazil is scaling back its protected area network. What is the impact?

By Annika McGinnis 12 de May de 201614 de September de 2020

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)?

Amazon infrastructure ethics, sustainability and hydropower: mission impossible?

By Annika McGinnis 9 de May de 201614 de September de 2020

Scientists analysed the Peruvian Inambari dam’s Environmental Impact Assessment to see if company ethics were driven by sustainability or profit.

Why more than 200 new dams will be a disaster for the Amazon

By Annika McGinnis 5 de April de 201614 de September de 2020

Continued dam-building across Amazonia could threaten dozens of species with extinction, says a new paper published this month in the journal Biodiversity and Conservation.

Munduruku indigenous protest in Tapajos river against dams

By Giovanny Vera 22 de March de 201614 de September de 2020

Over a hundred Mundurukú indigenous, among them leaders, warriors and children, came to a point on the Tapajos river, which they consider sacred, to pass a message to the world: “Stop the dams. Keep the Tapajós river alive.”

The dams on the Madeira River: The risk to Porto Velho, Brazil

By Giovanny Vera 9 de March de 201614 de September de 2020

Porto Velho is at risk by the existence of the Jirau and Santo Antônio dams, Madeira upriver. If the first breaks down, the wall of water that would cascade down the river would immediately break the Santo Antonio dam as well.

Dams on the Madeira River like the sword of Damocles: Changes in floods

By Giovanny Vera 7 de March de 201614 de September de 2020

The Greek myth of Damocles can be used to represent the situation of Porto Velho city, in Brazil, located immediately below the Santo Antonio dam on the Madeira River. Porto Velho thus is under an ongoing risk.

The Guardian: Violence and impunity in Brazil’s Amazon

By Annika McGinnis 29 de February de 201614 de September de 2020

One of the perpetrators of arguably Brazil’s most internationally high-profile murders in recent years is currently walking around free.

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