Belo Monte Dam, Brazil

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.