Belo Monte Dam, Brazil

I’m now back in the UK. The lack of radio contact recently is because I was in the deepest Brazilian Amazon, shooting a feature about the controversial Belo Monte hydro dam project in Para. For this story I was working in conjunction with Amazon Watch and Survival International : key NGO’s in the Belo Monte campaign.

Last week was a significant moment for the campaign, a decision was made that will affect the people of the Amazon and the World – Brazil’s environment agency IBAMA approved the full licence for the building of Belo Monte. Read the New York Times and AmazonWatch press release here

I’m currently in the process of editing the feature, and will be sending out to press this week. Here’s a couple of images from the project…