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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.

Grand Dam Plans for the Amazon

Oswaldo Sevá

Schemes for Dozens of Dams on Tributaries Would Choke River, Stifle Opposition

World Rivers Review, June 2006