Amazon Indians from the Xingu, Tapajos and Teles Pires river b...

The controversial Belo Monte Dam, which is under construction on the Xingu River in the Brazilian state of Pará, is roughly twenty percent completed. Belo Monte will displace over 20,000 people, gravely endanger the survival of indigenous peoples ...

On the Xingu River This week I will be leaving International Rivers after 16 years with the organization. Im moving back to my native Australia and taking on the position of Pacific Coordinator for a new international anti-coal network. While Im ...

Hundreds of people from the Xingu and Tapajós river basins began an indefinite protest of the main construction site of the controversial Belo Monte Dam on Thursday, May 2. Check out the pictures below for a glimpse of what's happening on the ...

The lush tropical forests that are currently found along the Xingu river. University of Texas The deforestation of the Amazon is often referred to in terms of the loss of habitat and species. But it also may come back to cause unforeseen ...

Tribes from Xingu and Tapajós rivers unite to protest violations of rights to prior consultations in construction of Amazon dams Amazon Watch, International Rivers, Conselho Indigenista Missionário For more information, contact: Brent Millikan, ...

Indigenous and riverbank communities occupy key work camp of Amazon megaproject Amazon Watch, International Rivers For more information, contact: Caroline Bennett, +1 510 629 9390, caroline@amazonwatch.org Brent Millikan, +55 61 8153 7009, ...

Notes from the Amazon Watch Brazil field team, currently in Altamira. Justice Now! Join the worldwide chorus calling for justice by urging Brazil's Supreme Court to rule on lawsuits against the Belo Monte Dam! It was 7 a.m. when I started talking ...

Altered rainfall, river levels, fire, agriculture cycles disrupting groups traditional lifestyles: new Philosophical Transactions B article New article shows indigenous groups in the Brazilian Amazon are already experiencing indications of ...

This shows rain over a soybean field at Tanguro Ranch in the Upper Xingu watershed, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Intensive crop farming in the Amazon depends on regular rainfall, but lower amounts of water returned to the atmosphere from cropland compared ...