Amazon Waterway Project threatens indigenous food sources

October 26, 2018 7:42 AM

A multi-million dollar project is set to span territory home to 424 native communities belonging to 14 native groups.

"These mega-projects are not implemented for our indigenous brothers travelling by humble canoe. They are made to facilitate large companies," says Robert Guimaraes, president of FECONAU, an indigenous group representing tribes along the Ucayali River basin, a main tributary of the Amazon River.

posted by poffin boffin (2 comments total)

All this money to deepen the waterways. A big, brown, slow moving, meandering river like that carries tons and tons of silt. Is there any money to keep constantly dredging it to keep the waterways clear? Otherwise these channels will probably fill up with silt within a few decades, and will be constantly scouring the banks downstream. I really hope they don't try to straighten out the route by cutting channels to skip over bends in the river. That will make these problems worse.
posted by Badgermann at 10:40 AM on October 26, 2018

The Amazon is set to be raped:
Bolsonaro is set to win Sundays election in Brazil and this is what he had to say:
There will not be a centimeter demarcated for indigenous or quilombo reservations (Portuguese).
The Miners are Salivating. Gold prospectors are poisoning the rivers and illegal loggers, miners, land-grabbers, as well as agribusiness with it's large land owners have rallied to his banner.
Meanwhile in Argentina the Gran Chaco forest is being razed for soya.
posted by adamvasco at 10:47 AM on October 26, 2018 [4 favorites]