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Amazon Tribes Fight to Keep the Xingu Alive

Glenn Switkes

For five days in May, hundreds of tribal people from the far reaches of the Amazon Basin came together to protest plans for huge dams on the Xingu River, the largest tributary of the Amazon.

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Amazon Tribe Blocks Highway to Stop Hydroelectric Dams

Survival International

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.

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