Rainforest

The Amazon River's largest tributary is under threat

Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Publication by Friends of the Earth Brazil and others on the campaign against dams on the Madeira River

Rio Madeira Vivo

Thursday, October 11, 2007
The Brazilian government is planning a series of large hydroelectric dams on the Amazon's principal tributary, the Madeira River. These dams will cause enormous environmental impacts, and activists are mobilizing to argue against their construction.

A Amazônia Sob Ameaça: Represamento Do Rio Madeira

Thursday, October 11, 2007
A Amazônia está sob ameaça. O governo brasileiro está planejando construir duas imponentes represas em um dos seus mais importantes tributários, o rio Madeira. Os projetos ameaçariam a biodiversidade única do rio, destruindo o habitat de peixes, golfinhos, papagaios e diversas espécies de mamíferos, e afetariam as terras e o sustento de milhares de moradores das margens dos rios, além das comunidades indígenas. O rio Madeira e a diversidade de vidas que ele sustenta poderiam ser gravemente afetados. Mas ainda não é muito tarde. Com a sua ajuda podemos mostrar ao governo brasileiro

Hidrelétricas no Brasil

Tucuruí Dam, Brazilian Amazon
Brasil e uma das nações do mundo que mais construí barragens, e está altamente dependente em hidroeletricidade, com 80% da sua energia elétrica proveniente de grandes represas. Apesar de novas iniciativas para diversificar as suas fontes de geração de energia elétrica, as agencias de planejamento de energia e as industrias seguem pressionando pela grande expansão da geração de hidroeletricidade no Brasil, argumentando que isso seja crucial para a economia do país crescer. Enquanto os críticos das hidrelétricas recomendam maneiras mais apropriadas e menos destrutivas de gerar ene

Greed and Resistance in Sarawak’s Rainforest

Will dams flood out Sarawak's indigenous cultures?
A corrupt clique is turning Sarawak's rainforest into a monoculture of oil palms and reservoirs. A new book documents the greed, the corruption and the resistance by indigenous peoples.

The True Costs of Belo Monte Dam Emerge

Map of Area Directly Impacted by Belo Monte Dam
Monday, October 12, 2009
Map of Area Directly Impacted by Belo Monte Dam from Belo Monte EIA What would be the true environmental, social, and economic costs of Belo Monte Dam? New studies by a group of independent experts have highlighted the serious consequences the dam would have for the region, its inhabitants, and ecosystems of the Amazon rainforest. Belo Monte, which with an installed generating capacity of 11,231 MW would be the world's third largest dam, and its complex array of two powerhouses, artificial canals, huge dykes, two reservoirs, spillways, ports, roads, and work camps would devastate more than 1,

Independent Review Highlights the True Costs of Belo Monte Dam

Monday, October 12, 2009
The true costs of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Project, planned for the Xingu River in the Brazilian Amazon, have been revealed in a new independent review by a panel of 40 specialists. The panel found that the dam would have serious consequences for the region, its inhabitants, and ecosystems of the Amazon rainforest. The panel - comprised of scientists from major Brazilian research institutions - reviewed the project's environmental impact assessment and delivered a 230-page report to Ibama, the Brazilian government's environmental agency, on October 1st.One of the most alarming impacts ide

Belo Monte Experts Panel Report

Tuesday, September 29, 2009
The true costs of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Project, planned for the Xingu River in the Brazilian Amazon, have been revealed in an independent review by a panel of 40 specialists. The panel found that the dam would have serious consequences for the region, its inhabitants, and ecosystems of the Amazon rainforest. The panel - comprised of scientists from major Brazilian research institutions - reviewed the project's environmental impact assessment and delivered a 230-page report to Ibama, the Brazilian government's environmental agency, on October 1st, 2009. One of the mo

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