According to reports, these big infrastructure projects will have huge impacts on ecosystems of rainforest and indigenous peoples, with potentially disastrous results.
Tag: Tapajós
Impact studies of hydroelectric São Luiz do Tapajós are insufficient
The Brazilian environmental licensing agency, IBAMA, asks the reformulation of the impact study in more than 180 points that need to be deepened.
InfoAmazonia carry out workshops with communities in Tapajós River region
Rede InfoAmazonia project began operations for monitoring of water quality with three workshops with riverside communities in two cities in the Brazilian Amazon. The next step is to install inexpensive sensors created by the project.
Tapajos, a Brazilian disputed river on west of Pará, Brazil
On the eve of losing their land to another strategic hydroelectric dam for the federal government, the Tapajós River communities, one of the best preserved of Brasil, are preparing to defend what is yours.
Funai confirms that land threatened by dam projects belongs to indigenous tribe
Land demarcation of Sawré Muybu is seen as a hindrance by the government, which plans to build seven power plants in the Tapajós River basin.
Tapajós Project: the next target of power generation expansion
Paper examines plans for the construction of dams in the basin of the Tapajós River and its effects on indigenous communities and the environment.
Brazil cancels Tapajos dam auction due to indigenous concerns
Brazilian authorities have suspended the auction of the centerpiece of the massive Tapajós hydroelectric complex, reports Agência Brasil.
Brazil’s planned Tapajós dams would increase Amazon deforestation by 1M ha
A plan to build a dozen dams in the Tapajós river basin would drive the loss of 950,000 hectares of rainforest by 2032 by spurring land speculation and mass migration to the region, suggests a study published by Imazon.
Amazônia.org: Tapajós hydroelectric divides lands and opinions
Lands of Pimental community will be cut by one of the hydroelectric dam planned for the region. Its population is divided between groups in favor and against the plant.
Heads of ICMBio parks speak of environmental impacts
Parties responsible for Jamanxin National Park and the Tapajós Flona speak of the possible and the probable impacts of hydropowers.