Latin America / Campaigns

The Patagonia Campaign aims to support the Chilean people's fight against plans to dam two of Chile's most powerful and pristine rivers, the Baker and Pascua Rivers. Electricity from these dams would be sent thousands of kilometers north to serve Chile’s biggest cities and its mammoth copper industry. The

The Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA) is a bold effort by the governments of South America to construct a new infrastructure network for the continent, including roads, waterways, ports, and energy and communications interconnections.

The Amazon Basin, home to sixty percent of the planet’s remaining tropical rainforests, is an immense region nearly the size of the continental United States. The Amazon´s incredible biodiversity is well-known, and new research confirms the critical role it plays in regulating the climate not only of South America, but also of parts of North America as well.

Hundreds of large dams planned in secrecy threaten the rivers of Central America and Mexico and the livelihoods of communities that depend on them. The dams would impact fish populations and riverine, wetland and mangrove ecosystems which contain many animal and plant species, some still undiscovered.

The Paraguay and Paraná Rivers are the principal watercourses of what is termed the La Plata River basin, South America’s second largest after the Amazon (2,800,000 km²), flowing through Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay.