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The 2 massive dams – the Jirau and Santo Antônio – are being constructed on the Madeira River within the western Amazon in Brazil at an estimated price of US$15 billion.
Preliminary building started in 2008. The Santo Antônio dam was anticipated to go on-stream in 2011, and the Jirau dam in 2012, however the dams haven’t but been accomplished.
European corporations comparable to France’s GDF Suez and banks comparable to Spain’s Banco Santander are concerned on this challenge.
“FUNAI, the Brazilian authorities’s Indigenous affairs division”:https://www.survivalinternational.org/about/funai, has proof that there are uncontacted Indians dwelling within the areas affected by each dams. Some dwell as shut as 10km to the location of the Jirau dam.
A current FUNAI report says that the noise of the dam building has already pushed a few of these Indians off their land, right into a territory the place miners are working illegally. Any encounter between the uncontacted Indians and miners may set off battle.
The uncontacted Indians have little or no immunity to frequent ailments comparable to flu and measles launched by outsiders. Any type of contact threatens to drive them to extinction, as has incessantly occurred previously.
The Jirau and Santo Antônio dams additionally instantly threaten 4 Indigenous peoples of the Higher Madeira basin: the Karitiana, Karipuna, Urueu Wau Wau, and Katawixi. The Parintintin, Tenharim, Pirahã, Jiahui, Torá, Apurinã, Mura, Oro Ari, Oro Bom, Cassupá, and Salamãi tribes is also affected.
If building of the dams continues, the challenge will construct new roads, bringing in an inflow of loggers, miners, colonists and land grabbers to the realm, thus rising deforestation and harming the looking and fishing grounds on which the tribes rely for his or her survival.
Social tensions and violence between outsiders and Indians are prone to erupt as Indigenous territories will likely be focused for his or her pure assets.
The dams’ reserves will make waters stagnant, a super breeding floor for lethal ailments comparable to malaria, that are already frequent on this a part of the western Amazon.
There was little or no session with Indigenous peoples in regards to the challenge, and they didn’t give their free, prior and knowledgeable consent for the dams to be constructed.
That is in violation of Brazil’s structure and “Conference 169 of the Worldwide Labour Organisation”:/legislation which has been ratified by Brazil.
Valmir Parintintin, chief of a Parintintin Indian group, acknowledged, ‘The federal government has nonetheless not come and spoken to us about what impacts the dam can have. The market, the grocery store of the Indians is the river.
‘If the dam is constructed, what is going to occur to the Indians’ lifestyle? Will anyone deliver us meals? No. No one will deliver us something. We’re very fearful’.
Domingos Parintintin mentioned, ‘We hope that the challenge will likely be stopped, as a result of it’s our kids who will endure the implications. They are going to not have sufficient fish or sufficient recreation to feed themselves’
Please “write a letter for the tribes”:/actnow/writealetter/madeira-dams affected by the Madeira River dams. Your letter will get the message to the Brazilian authorities that tribal peoples’ rights have to be upheld.h2. From Survival’s web site
“*About Brazil’s Belo Monte dam*”:/about/belo-monte-dam
“*About different dam projecs affecting tribal folks*”:/about/dams
“*Extra about Brazilian Indians*”:/tribes/brazilian
“*Extra about Uncontacted Indians of Brazil*”:/tribes/uncontacted-brazil
“*Information: Worldwide tribunal tells Brazilian authorities to halt dam challenge*”:/information/3884
“*_Serious Damage_, Survival’s report in regards to the impacts of dams on tribal folks*”:https://property.survivalinternational.org/paperwork/373/Serious_Damage_final.pdf
h2. From the online
“*Worldwide Rivers*”:https://www.internationalrivers.org/en/latin-america/amazon-basin/madeira-river
“*Amazon Watch*”:https://amazonwatch.org/amazon/BR/madeira/
“*Buddies of the Earth, Brazilian Amazon*”:https://ef.amazonia.org.br/
“*Motion of Dam Affected Folks*”:https://www.mabnacional.org.br/english/menu/rio_madeira.html
“*Kanindé Associação de Defesa Etno-Ambiental (in Portuguese)*”:https://www.kaninde.org.br/
“*Le Monde article (pdf)*”:https://property.survivalinternational.org/paperwork/271/LeMondeEnglish.pdf
“*NGO information booklet (4.4mb)*”:https://property.survivalinternational.org/paperwork/270/Livreto.pdf
“*GDF Suez correspondence*”:https://property.survivalinternational.org/paperwork/285/GDF_communications.pdf
“*Worldwide Rivers map of Madeira dams low-res*”:https://property.survivalinternational.org/paperwork/272/madeira_map_lo_res.jpg
“*Worldwide Rivers map hi-res*”:https://property.survival-international.org/paperwork/273/Madeira_dams_map.pdf
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