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Nobody listened to them: fishing communities to be displaced by dams want say in their future
Posted by Mongabay: Ana Aranha and Jessica Mota on March 30th, 2015
Mongabay: The life of fisherman Rosinaldo Pereira dos Santos, generally known as Tatá, may take a very different direction from the one that the governments of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and President Dilma Rousseff have promoted through their social welfare programs. Living on the banks of the Tapajós River in the Brazilian Amazon, he has always had abundant food. Proof of this hangs on his living room wall: photographs of catfish bigger than him. But now Tatá may join the group of Brazilians who...
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Brazil: Dams or indigenous land: battle over the Munduruku frontier
Posted by Mongabay: Ana Aranha and Jessica Mota on February 20th, 2015
Mongabay: The Munduruku indigenous tribe have begun to mark out the limits of their land, in an action that could halt the giant São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric dam, the apple of the Brazilian government's eye. Although sacred, this land will be flooded if the dam goes ahead. "We are not leaving," says the village chief. Along the banks of Brazil's Tapajós River in the west of the state of Pará, the forest undergrowth crackles as Munduruku warriors march over it. They are about 20 in number, all strong,...