Movimento Ipereg Ayu, Brazil - Equator Prize 2015 Winner from sawre Watch Video
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Description: Facing a proposal by the Brazilian government to build a large dam complex on the Tapajós River that would submerge their vast territories, which span one million hectares of primary rainforest, the Munduruku of the Brazilian Amazon formed a resistance movement called Ipereg Ayu. Ipereg Ayu, in local language, means “I am strong, I know how to protect myself”.Designed to safeguard the Amazon rainforest and protect the rights of the Munduruku people, the movement has helped to demarcate tr