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Environmentalists and indigenous-rights supporters gathered featuring in the Brazilian principal Tuesday to strike a hydroelectric dam project with the aim of they say would take place devastating to the Amazon region.The demonstration, indoors front the congressional building indoors Brasilia, seeks to bring to a halt the construction of the Belo Monte dam, which they say would flood next to slightest 400,000 hectares not quite a million acres of forest, displacing 40,000 original populace and other district residents, and destroying various species of wildlife and insects.The construction of the controversial reservoir a $17 billion project was authorized featuring in January by Brazils Environmental Institute.The contractors working on the dam, to be situated located on the Xingu canal wearing Para state, experience authorization to fair 238 hectares of the forest, an area better than Monaco.The protesters care for to end Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff a petition signed by semi a million intimates from around the earth who appraise the project.The government argues with the intention of the hydroelectric dam, with a aptitude space of 11,000 megawatts, is desirable to ensure a supply of energy meant for a motherland with the intention of is growing economically.