Brazil announces end to Amazon mega-dam building policy

Mongabay
Jan 3, 2018, 3:53 pm409 pts
An indigenous leader in April 2015 at the São Manoel dam construction site on the Teles Pires River in the Tapajós basin. Photo by Midia Ninja courtesy of International Rivers. In a surprise move, the Brazilian government has announced that the era of building big hydroelectric dams in the Amazon basin, long…

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