Sue Branford and Nick Terdre – BBC News, 8/4/2014
“If these dams are built, everything will end,” says Lamberto Painha, one of the chiefs of the Munduruku tribe in Brazil’s Amazon region.
“That village over there will be flooded,” he points. “Monkeys, birds, Indians – we’ll all lose our homes.”
Over the last few months some 13,000 Munduruku have been protesting against government plans to build a series of hydroelectric dams that will flood part of their land on the upper reaches of the Tapajos river.
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