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“Conflicting areas”: Brazilian energy planning at odds with the protection of Indigenous Peoples and the Amazon Rainforest

Advisory Council Member Fernanda Frizzo Bragato coauthored a paper about the incompatibility between Brazilian hydroelectric expansion plans, and the urgent need to curb deforestation and to protect Indigenous lands, which, along with other problems, will probably enhance the violence against Indigenous communities in that region: