Members of the Caiapo tribe paint themselves through the dispute hip Brasilia, Brazil. Environmentalists and indigenous-rights supporters gathered voguish the Brazilian first city Tuesday to campaign a hydroelectric dam project so as to they say would exist devastating to the Amazon region.The demonstration, modish front the congressional building modish Brasilia, seeks to sojourn the construction of the Belo Monte dam, which they say would flood on smallest amount 400,000 hectares near a million acres of forest, displacing 40,000 local live in and other narrow residents, and destroying various species of wildlife and insects.The construction of the controversial reservoir a $17 billion project was authorized inside January by Brazils Environmental Institute.The contractors working on the dam, to be present located on the Xingu waterway trendy Para state, boast say-so to straighten 238 hectares of the forest, an area better than Monaco.The protesters plan to make happen Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff a petition signed by semi a million community from around the humankind who carp the project.