Indigenous tribe applauds state move to cancel Brazil Amazon dam

By Chris Arsenault RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indigenous people living in Brazil's rainforest have welcomed a decision by the national environment agency to cancel a proposed mega-dam in the Amazon which they say would have displaced communities while opening the sensitive region to logging. Tribes will now be able to better protect the rainforest and continue living on the land because new roads and other infrastructure will not unlock the area's pristine landscape for loggers, said Cacique Celso Tawe, a leader of the indigenous Munduruku Indians. "The dam would only have brought terrible things for our people," Tawe said, following the decision on Thursday by Brazil's environmental regulator Ibama to halt the project.