ENDANGERED AMAZON: An Indigenous Tribe Fights Back Against Hydropower Development in the Tapajós Valley.

WATER power -- Design & construction; UNION de Naciones Suramericanas; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL policy; ENVIRONMENTAL impact analysis; ROUSSEFF, Dilma, 1947-

AMAZON River Valley; BRAZIL

The article offers information on the threats to an indigenous tribe of Amazon from an hydropower infrastructure plan proposed by the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR). Topics discussed include decline in the Amazonian deforestation rates due to Brazil's environmental policies; conduction of an environmental impact assessment (EIA) of the Tapajós Hydroelectric Complex (THC); and mentions that the former President Dilma Rousseff redrew the boundaries of Amazon National Park (ANP).