Protestor holding up poster "Belo Monte = Genocide" trying to mobilize international pressure to help stop the largest Brazilian Government sponsored destruction of the Amazon during the Brazilian Day Festival in NYC.
The new forest codes and Delo Monte Dam will cause the destruction of ecosystems ( plants and animals) and will directly cause the the extinction of 100,000 animal species and allow the destruction of 60 percent of the Amazon Rainforest. 13,000 indigenous people from several indigenous tribes are being expelled from their lands