Brazil's Munduruku Indians Start a Movement to Save an Amazon Tributary
Brazil's Munduruku Indians Start a Movement to Save an Amazon Tributary
Newsroom 19 June 2016
Greenpeace has joined forces with an Indigenous Amazonian community in an unofficial demarcation of their land, deep in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon.
The demarcation is the latest effort in a global campaign to protect the Tapajós River from the construction of a massive dam, the São Luiz do Tapajós (SLT), which would lead to devastating rainforest destruction.
The Munduruku Indigenous Peoples, who have been fighting against the dam and for the formal recognition of their land for many years, have sparked a global movement for the protection of the Tapajós and are calling on global companies to distance themselves from the controversial project.
In July, a group of New Zealanders will arrive at Sawré Muybu Indigenous village to assist the Munduruku.
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