Amazon dam halted over fear for indigenous people

摘要

Brazil's environment agency IBAMA has suspended construction permits for a mega-dam project in the country's Amazon River Basin, which would have flooded about 440,000 acres of land. Land rights campaigners are praising the derailment of the São Luiz do Tapajós dam, which they say would have displaced the Munduruku indigenous people and disrupted the Amazon ecosystem.