Young people from five villages trained to record fish catches and track changes in the Bacajá River after Belo Monte.
To track the impacts of the Belo Monte dam on the Bacajá River, Berê co-executes the fish monitoring work in its member villages.
Young people from the villages of Krãnh, Prindjãm, Kabakrô, Kameredjãm and Kenoro were trained in ecology and data collection on aquatic life. Each received a kit with a scale, clipboards and tape measures to measure and record the fish caught by the communities.
The first records serve to test what was learned. The goal is for the Xikrin themselves to track, with data, the changes in the Bacajá River.
Since the 1970s, the Xikrin people have faced large infrastructure projects in the Middle Xingu. The Association monitors and co-executes the compensation programs of the Belo Monte dam, which changed the flow of the Bacajá River.
About the project Belo Monte and PBA-CI
A project proposed and led by the Association: restoration with agroforestry systems, value chains for cacao, Brazil nuts, babassu and menire handicrafts, Xikrin fire brigades and Environmental Agents, and care for the villages’ water.
About the project Restaura Amazônia
Building the Ngàb, the warriors’ house, the political space where each village makes its decisions and learns from the Kubengêt.
About the project Warriors’ House