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Is the heart of it as old as you are wonderful rich are you a true paradise leave the forest alone because you will need it there. but the government in brasilia appears unwilling to engage in dialogue protecting the indigenous people and the rain forest is not a priority. the dam nearing completion on the shingle river is one of the biggest in the world yet the belmonte dam complex is just one more of the forest and its inhabitants. gigantic projects including seventy major planned to make brazil a global play on the energy market. that every damn destroys the ecological balance of the rain f...

In the natural environment. the territories marked in light green on the back make up ten percent of the area of brazil. the eight hundred thousand square kilometers roughly the area france and germany combined are home to five hundred thousand people. but it's not only the indigenous lands on the shingle river that have attracted the attention of the agro industry which is felling more and more forest by the day in the state of missouri grosso which borders on the protected area the rain forest has been nearly completely depleted over the past four decades. instead of giant trees soybean silo...

Again. only to you and not give these to this year the river has dried out safely. water levels have gone down tremendously. even just worrisome to see so many sandbanks where there used to be water idea but i have never seen so little water in the river you are the most obvious because at the dinner time. before the dam was there there was always enough water. but after the dam was built the water level dropped and there were no more fish in the might be the fish are being held back by the dam wall and can swim into the shingle river at the mouth of the. well soon the shingle

For centuries but for them the forest also has a spiritual significance. the amisom basin with more than a thousand tributaries has driven evolutionary processes in countless species of animals and plants. on the shingle river the lifeline for the humans in the region toppy and his son married someone to have the first witnesses of the changes and still. thank. you thank. you this is the trail of a jaguar. i always tell my son not to go out into the forest alone it's much too dangerous because the jaguar could get in. it's already attacked one member of our tribe which are you are jumped on hi...

So we must take care of it. i returned to witness the disastrous effect of the first contact between tribal peoples and european settlers decades ago. the settlers brought with them infectious diseases to which the indians had no immunity. such exposure wiped out numerous try. a push began to protect the rain forest people from extinction. activists including the villas boas brothers demarcated the lands of local tribes on the shingle river which became a national park in one nine hundred sixty one. and. the.