The 17-billion-dollar Belo Monte dam
Director James Cameron is stepping up his battle to save indigenous communities threatened by construction of huge dams in the Amazon rain forest, in a move he says has strong parallels to his record-breaking movie Avatar.
Cameron this week released a short movie called A Message from Pandora, which spotlights the battle waged by tribes in the Amazon against a Brazilian project to build the world's third-largest hydroelectric dam on the Xingu River. The movie is available as a special feature on the Avatar Collector's Edition DVD.
The 17-billion-dollar Belo Monte dam would divert almost the entire flow of the river along a 100-kilometre stretch, with its reservoirs flooding more than 40,000 hectares of rainforest and displacing more than
followed 40,000 people, according to the environmental group Amazon Watch.
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