Overview Key Issues Problem Projects Updates Resources Partners Contacts
Status: Active Read more
Status: Completed Exploration, extraction, and transport activities have led to degradation and conversion of critical natural habitats Read more
Regional infrastructure mega-project involves 12 governments and $37 billion in potential investment Read more
Status: Active This controversial transcontinental road project threatens the environment and indigenous communities in both Peru and Brazil. Read more
Status: Active This multi-billion dollar hydroelectric complex threatens one of the Amazon Basin’s main southern tributaries. Read more
BIC has worked on these projects in the past, but is no longer actively covering them.
Status: Closed Will directly affect more than 75,000 people, and flood savannas and rainforest Read more
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Before there was IIRSA, there was Plan Puebla Panama Read more
Status: Closed Civil society groups argue that public consultation has been minimal to non-existent and that compensation and relocation packages for affected peoples have been inadequate. Read more
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