Hi,
You are doing a great job, but unfortunately you can do nothing.
I'm Brazilian and ecologist too and 95 percent of all Brazilians are worried with the destruction of Amazon rainforest.
President Lula is too a great man, with social and ambiental concerns, but he can do nothing, too.
There is BIG MONEY involved in all of this and the big companies from US and Europe, like GM,Ford, GE, Alcoa, etc. have great responsibily in the destruction of Amazon forest.
President Lula is a mere slave of these great corporations.
You could write to President Bush too, but he is in the same position like President Lula.
The best you can do is to put pressure on the big American multinationals to help supporting the conservation of the Amazon rainforest, with lots of money.
That's all.
All the best
Nelson

to confirm support of the position of
indigenous peoples of the rainforest - that Brazil has better
ways of providing its future energy needs than destroying the
mighty Xingu River and ancient Amazon rainforests.

jane faulkner

If you have any doubts about it check out the environmental effects on the region after the Yacyretá dam / energy plant was built.

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no no no no no no!!!!!
please do not build the dam!!!
you can do anything to brasil but dont hurt and damage more of amazon. this is the land that cant be touch but yet has been destroyed a lot already. WHY????por que???
think of the people, our ancestors, think of the forest and the animals, think for our planet Earth. if we do more damage, we will be punished! how can people do this? damn the businese people, they have no heart, but eyes on money and profit. damn them all!!!
the mining, the wood chopping, the rubber taping, etc have done enough to amazon. i think we should leave it alone, do not interrupt the life there any more. we have our own city life, is that no enough to keep us happy?
the forest does not belong to anyone but the ones who choose to live with it in harmony. i know it all sounds too idealist, but i am, i am one of the 2% of the population in the world who think like this, say like this and will act like this. i dont understand why they would do such a thing to the forest. i dont see the point of this kind of incomes will do any good to the people in brasil or people in the world in a long run.
please please please, God, stop them from doing that, and put more brain in their heads.

Dear Sir,

We send our strongest possible objection to one of the worlds' most environmentally destructive projects, and the gross violation of human rights to remove all the indigenous people in the area proposed for this outrageous, climate changing project. You really must be aware that we need all the carbon sinks we can possibly provide across the planet and yet you can even think of committing such an act of eco vandalism for such a minimal return on your investment. This the logic behind this act of sheer vandalism in one of the world's most precious areas of biodiversity is far beyond the reach of any normal, environmmentally responsible person right now.

In the name of sanity and environmental responsibility we ask you to cancel this project. These dams never work as they will dry up the river and there is a war on in many places over the provision of water, the planet's most precious asset, or commodity as it is now treated, which will escalate due entirely to the sheer lack of water for everything we need to survive.

So our clear message is:
DAMN the DAM and cancel it.

Yours sincerely,
Mrs. S. M. Lodge

“Fighting for the Amazon”
ALTAMIRA, Brazil—In this sweltering urban outpost on the banks of the Xingu River, one of the major tributaries of the Amazon River, a large official-looking billboard looms over one of the main streets downtown. Two hands are clenched in a friendly handshake, next to a colorful sketch of an unobtrusive dam traversing the crystalline waters of the river. “United For Progress,” it reads, “United for Belo Monte Dam.” Despite the cheerful propaganda, not everybody in town appears to be as optimistic. “Out Belo Monte!” and “Death to the Monster Dam!” are just a few of the slogans splashed as graffiti across the city that tell a very different story.
For five days at the end of May, thousands of indigenous Brazilians, riverbank dwellers, fishers and environmental and social movement activists, along with religious leaders and sympathetic local government officials, came together for the Xingu Forever Alive Encounter, a historic gathering to oppose a hydroelectric project that, as conceived, would be the third-largest dam in the world. The Brazilian government, along with a number of massive construction conglomerates, calls the dam an essential component of Brazil’s energy policy and necessary to keep the fast-growing economy humming. Activists and indigenous Brazilians call it a reckless project that will displace tens of thousands of people who depend on the river for their livelihood, will destroy migratory fish stocks and will channel energy primarily to the aluminum mines and the growing number of multinational extractive industries that are setting up shop in the Amazon.
To view the rest of this article, see http://www.indypendent.org/2008/07/17/fighting-for-the-amazon/