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The 2 massive dams – the Jirau and Santo Ant\u00f4nio – are being constructed on the Madeira River within the western Amazon in Brazil at an estimated price of US$15 billion.<\/p>\n
Preliminary building started in 2008. The Santo Ant\u00f4nio dam was anticipated to go on-stream in 2011, and the Jirau dam in 2012, however the dams haven’t but been accomplished.<\/p>\n
European corporations comparable to France\u2019s GDF Suez and banks comparable to Spain\u2019s Banco Santander are concerned on this challenge.<\/p>\n “FUNAI, the Brazilian authorities\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n The Jirau and Santo Ant\u00f4nio dams additionally instantly threaten 4 Indigenous peoples of the Higher Madeira basin: the Karitiana, Karipuna, Urueu Wau Wau, and Katawixi. The Parintintin, Tenharim, Pirah\u00e3, Jiahui, Tor\u00e1, Apurin\u00e3, Mura, Oro Ari, Oro Bom, Cassup\u00e1, and Salam\u00e3i tribes is also affected.<\/p>\n 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. <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n The dams\u2019 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. <\/p>\n 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. <\/p>\n That is in violation of Brazil\u2019s structure and “Conference 169 of the Worldwide Labour Organisation”:\/legislation which has been ratified by Brazil. <\/p>\n If the dam is constructed, what is going to occur to the Indians\u2019 lifestyle? Will anyone deliver us meals? No. No one will deliver us something. We’re very fearful.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote> Valmir Parintintin, chief of a Parintintin Indian group, acknowledged, \u2018The 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.<\/p>\n \u2018If the dam is constructed, what is going to occur to the Indians\u2019 lifestyle? Will anyone deliver us meals? No. No one will deliver us something. We’re very fearful\u2019.<\/p>\n Domingos Parintintin mentioned, \u2018We 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\u2019 <\/p>\n Please “write a letter for the tribes”:\/actnow\/writealetter\/madeira-dams affected by the Madeira River dams. 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“*About Brazil’s Belo Monte dam*”:\/about\/belo-monte-dam
\n “*About different dam projecs affecting tribal folks*”:\/about\/dams
\n “*Extra about Brazilian Indians*”:\/tribes\/brazilian
\n “*Extra about Uncontacted Indians of Brazil*”:\/tribes\/uncontacted-brazil
\n “*Information: Worldwide tribunal tells Brazilian authorities to halt dam challenge*”:\/information\/3884
\n “*_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<\/p>\n![\"*\"\/](\"https:\/\/assets.survivalinternational.org\/static\/lib\/img\/structure\/icon_web_16x16.png\"){kind=icon}
“*Worldwide Rivers*”:https:\/\/www.internationalrivers.org\/en\/latin-america\/amazon-basin\/madeira-river
\n “*Amazon Watch*”:https:\/\/amazonwatch.org\/amazon\/BR\/madeira\/
\n “*Buddies of the Earth, Brazilian Amazon*”:https:\/\/ef.amazonia.org.br\/
\n “*Motion of Dam Affected Folks*”:https:\/\/www.mabnacional.org.br\/english\/menu\/rio_madeira.html
\n “*Kanind\u00e9 Associa\u00e7\u00e3o de Defesa Etno-Ambiental (in Portuguese)*”:https:\/\/www.kaninde.org.br\/
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“*Le Monde article (pdf)*”:https:\/\/property.survivalinternational.org\/paperwork\/271\/LeMondeEnglish.pdf
\n “*NGO information booklet (4.4mb)*”:https:\/\/property.survivalinternational.org\/paperwork\/270\/Livreto.pdf
\n “*GDF Suez correspondence*”:https:\/\/property.survivalinternational.org\/paperwork\/285\/GDF_communications.pdf
\n “*Worldwide Rivers map of Madeira dams low-res*”:https:\/\/property.survivalinternational.org\/paperwork\/272\/madeira_map_lo_res.jpg
\n “*Worldwide Rivers map hi-res*”:https:\/\/property.survival-international.org\/paperwork\/273\/Madeira_dams_map.pdf<\/p>\nSignal as much as the mailing record<\/h3>\n