UF Faculty describe the struggle facing an indigenous tribe living alongside the Tapajos River in the Brazilian Amazon

UF Faculty describe the struggle facing an indigenous tribe living alongside the Tapajos River in the Brazilian Amazon

Robert Walker and Cynthia Simmons published in the Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development journal an article entitled “Amazonia threatened: an indigenous tribe fights against the development of the hydroelectric plant in the Tapajós Valley“.

Editors selected this article as the featured article in the March / April issue. The article is available for free at http://www.environmentmagazine.org. Please share broadly with your colleagues. In addition, the editors chose for the cover of the magazine a photograph taken by PhD student UF Maira Irigaray, who is a member of the Amazon Dams Network and had a long involvement with Amazon Watch.