A group of boys climb a tree on the Xingu River by the city of Altamira, Brazil. One third of the city will be permanently flooded by the nearby Belo Monte Dam displacing over 20,000 people. It will be the third largest dam in the world.
A child from the Xikrin village of Pot cr jumps into the Rio Bacaja, its name meaning ‘the water that runs in river is the same as the blood that flows through our veins’. The Bacaja, a tributary of the Xingu River which the people depend upon for fish and transportation, will severely dry up after the dam is completed.
The Xikrin community are a warrior tribe that have strongly resisted the dam, but many of the chiefs were paid off with boats, motors, and televisions, while others maintained resistance.
Munduruku women bathe and do laundry in a creek by the village of Sawre Muybu. The planned hydroelectric dams in the Amazon rainforest would flood much of their traditional lands in Para State.
A girl stands in her flooded house in Invasao dos Padres, a neighbourhood in the city of Altamira that will be permanently flooded by the Belo Monte Dam.
The newly operational Belo Monte Dam is seen on the Xingu River in March 2016. Two of the 18 turbines are currently operational, the dam is expected to be complete by 2019.
Members of the Munduruku indigenous tribe embark down the Tapajos river on the day of a protest action in coordination with Greenpeace.
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