Indigenous

A remote Amazonian tribe are blockading a major highway in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso in protest at a series of hydroelectric dams that will destroy their vital fishing grounds. The Enawene Nawe Indians set up their blockade yesterday morning.

Brasília - A study on the possibilities of building hydroelectric dams
on the Xingu River, which flows through Mato Grosso and Pará states,
has been delivered to the National Electrical Energy Agency (ANEEL).

Studies for the document, which the Federal Attorney´s office (MPF)

Brasília - Um estudo sobre as possibilidades de aproveitamento
elétrico no Rio Xingu, que corta os estados do Mato Grosso e do Pará,
foi entregue à Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica (Aneel).

O documento, que era esperado pelo Ministério Público Federal (MPF) e

We wish to express our concern about the possible construction of a complex of hydroelectric dams on the Xingu River. If these large dams are constructed on the Volta Grande (Big Bend) of the Xingu River they will affect indigenous peoples, agricultural communities, the forest and its biodiversity, and would harm life in the Xingu basin.