Belo Monte Dam, Brazil
The Belo Monte Dam in the Brazilian Amazon altered the Xingu River's flow, damaging fish stocks and flooding forest land, and caused lasting harm to the indigenous Juruna, Arara, and Xikrin communities who depended on the river.
The construction of the Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil is a tragic example. The Brazilian government and construction consortium [=] designed and built the massive hydroelectric dam to provide power to distant cities, framing it as a neutral act of national development. However, the dam drastically altered the flow of the Xingu River, devastating fish stocks and flooding vast areas of forest. This caused irreparable harm [-] to the indigenous Juruna, Arara, and Xikrin communities, who depended on the river and forest for their physical and cultural survival, yet had no power to stop the project.
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