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BNDES

News Indigenous Communities Protest the Belo Monte Dam Indigenous leaders from more than 15 ethnic groups living in the Xingu River Basin (PA) promise to protest... March 24, 2010

Press Release Government License for Belo Monte Dam Provokes International Outcry Letter to President Lula Demands Cancellation of Massive Hydroelectric Project March 11, 2010

News President of Brazilian Social and Economic Development Bank (BNDES) disregards resistance to Belo Monte dam and grants its financing Despite vehement opposition against the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam on the Xingu River from indigenous... March 3, 2010

News International outcry as Brazilian government grants license for construction of dam on Xingu River On 1 February, the Brazilian government announced it had given the go-ahead for the construction of a new... February 9, 2010

Campaign Update Brazilian Government Shoves Belo Monte Down Our Throats Ahead of Campaign Season Brazil's Xingu River, its indigenous and traditional inhabitants, and the immense stretches of intact Amazon rainforest that it... February 5, 2010

Campaign Update From the Xingu Alive Forever Movement: a letter of denouncement and indignation against the approval of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam's provisional license. This letter was issued by the civil society organization Xingu Alive Forever Movement (Movimento Xingu Vivo Para Sempre)... February 4, 2010

News Fury as giant Belo Monte Amazon rainforest dam is approved by Brazil Brazil has approved the controversial construction of a giant hydroelectric dam in the heart of the Amazon, defying... February 3, 2010

News Destructive Belo Monte Dam Gets Green Light in Brazil This interview with Amazon Watch Brazil Program Coordinator Christian Poirier was aired on the BBC 5 radio program... February 3, 2010

Press Release Global Concern Mounts Over Brazilian Government's Licensing of the Destructive Belo Monte Dam The World's Third Largest Dam Is Expected to Devastate Vast Area of Amazon Rainforest February 2, 2010

News BNDES Called to Account for Projects Latin American communities and organisations want Brazil's national development bank, BNDES, to stop sponsoring 'destructive' renewables projects.Plataforma BNDES,... January 22, 2010

Battle for the Xingu

Video Battle for the Xingu Imagine if Hurricane Katrina was not a hurricane at all, but an event sponsored by the federal government,... January 1, 2010

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