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Mongabay: Three indigenous Amazonian leaders spent this week touring Europe to raise awareness about the threat that a number of proposed monster dams pose to their people and the Amazon forest. Culminating in a press conference and protests in London, the international trip hopes to build pressure to stop three current hydroelectric projects, one in Peru, including six dams, and two in Brazil, the Madeira basin industrial complex and the massive Belo Monte dam. The indigenous leaders made the trip with the......
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Indigenous leaders take fight over Amazon dams to Europe
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 2nd, 2011
Posted in Water Conservation