Fishers have a plan to save human and more-than-human lives in the region affected by the Belo Monte Dam and they want the federal government to listen to them

Guardians of the Amazon Forest in the Middle Xingu describe how the river’s rapids and waterfalls are more-than-human beings that interweave with their lives

A report by Brazil’s environmental agency states that water captured by the hydropower plant has disrupted the lives of Indigenous peoples and traditional forest communities, killed trees and fish, and endangered the river

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Since 2015, the sequestering of the river’s water by the hydroelectric plant has interrupted lifecycles and killed thousands of fish, threatening food security for Indigenous and Ribeirinho peoples, with Brazil’s environmental regulator failing to make a decision to stop the destruction

An alliance of traditional communities, Indigenous researchers and university scientists aims to produce reliable data to counter information presented by Norte Energia on the impacts of the hydroelectric plant

‘Piracema Hydrogram,’ an animation made in partnership with Indigenous peoples and ribeirinhos, shows how the hydroelectric plant’s sequester of 70% of the river’s water has turned life into death in one of the Amazon’s most biodiverse regions

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At a seminar for senior government officials in Brasilia, researchers finally reveal the weak study on which the dam’s operator Norte Energia has based its quota of 8,000 cubic meters per second for nature. They say this is dangerously inadequate for the important ecosystem and way of life of people who live on the river’s ‘Big Bend’.

As a fisherman-writer, this ribeirinho writes to release feelings dammed up by the pain of what Belo Monte did to the river, which is his life