Preliminary development 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 firms comparable to France’s GDF Suez and banks comparable to Spain’s Banco Santander are concerned on this undertaking.
“FUNAI, the Brazilian authorities’s Indigenous affairs division”:https://www.survivalinternational.org/about/funai, has proof that there are uncontacted Indians residing within the areas affected by each dams. Some reside as shut as 10km to the positioning of the Jirau dam.
A latest FUNAI report says that the noise of the dam development 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 prompt battle.
The uncontacted Indians have little or no immunity to frequent illnesses comparable to flu and measles launched by outsiders. Any type of contact threatens to drive them to extinction, as has steadily occurred up to now.
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 may be affected.
If development of the dams continues, the undertaking will construct new roads, bringing in an inflow of loggers, miners, colonists and land grabbers to the world, thus growing 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 really perfect breeding floor for lethal illnesses 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 undertaking, 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”:/regulation which has been ratified by Brazil.
Valmir Parintintin, chief of a Parintintin Indian neighborhood, acknowledged, ‘The federal government has nonetheless not come and spoken to us about what impacts the dam could have. The market, the grocery store of the Indians is the river.
‘If the dam is constructed, what’s going to occur to the Indians’ lifestyle? Will anyone convey us meals? No. No one will convey us something. We’re very anxious’.
Domingos Parintintin stated, ‘We hope that the undertaking will likely be stopped, as a result of it’s our kids who will undergo the results. They are going to not have sufficient fish or sufficient sport 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 undertaking*”:/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 net
“*Worldwide Rivers*”:https://www.internationalrivers.org/en/latin-america/amazon-basin/madeira-river
“*Amazon Watch*”:https://amazonwatch.org/amazon/BR/madeira/
“*Pals of the Earth, Brazilian Amazon*”:https://ef.amazonia.org.br/
“*Motion of Dam Affected Individuals*”: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 data 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
Signal as much as the mailing listing
Our superb community of supporters and activists have performed a pivotal position in every part we’ve achieved over the previous 50 years. Join now for updates and actions.
