Indigenous Brazilians at a meeting to demand consultation on the Belo Monte dam that would affect their communities (Photo courtesy Amazon Watch) BRASILIA, Brazil, August 16, 2012 (ENS) – A halt to ...

The Xingu River is revered as the “house of God” by the Indigenous people living along its Volte Grande, or Big Bend, in the Brazilian Amazon. The river is essential to their culture and religion, and ...

Proud, Wonderful People! Soon, there will be 60 Dams in their Amazon Rainforest home, including the third largest in the World, Belo Monte, ....unless WE stop this from happening! PLEASE, BECOME ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Response of the Arara People to the Norte Energia letter. Letter from the Arara People to the World We the Arara Indigenous People of the Iriri ...

BRASILIA, Brazil, April 20, 2010 (ENS) – Today’s bidding for electricity generated by Brazil’s planned Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon rainforest has been marked by protests and legal confusion. A court ...

David de Rothschild has hiked to both poles to slow global warming and raised awareness about oceanic pollution by sailing across the Pacific in a boat made of recycled plastic. For his latest ...

This post is part of our special coverage Forest Focus: Amazon. Dilma Rousseff‘s government has just begun and it's already facing a virtual mobilization against it – and the issue is the environment.

Belo Monte Scars Upon Mother Earth.. For nearly 30 years, Chief Raoni has fought tirelessly to stop The Belo Monte Dam being built in his beloved Amazon Rainforest. Tragically, this is now starting to ...

A June 17th judicial decision suspends the permission granted on February 8th by Brazil’s environmental agency to allow even more water to be diverted from the Xingu River. Even without the additional ...

Londolfo Aranha Neto, 59, casts his net among treetops at the edge of the Belo Monte Dam reservoir, near Altamira, Brazil. He is among the thousands of fisher families displaced by the flooding of the ...

Social networks are undoubtedly the modern disseminators of relevant news, and in large part, of controversial debates. This past week, a photo of Chief Raoni Metuktire was spread around Facebook.

The Belo Monte Dam (formerly known as Kararaô) is a proposed hydroelectric dam complex on the Xingu River in the state of Pará, Brazil. The planned installed capacity of the dam complex would be ...