The lives of these people,their cultures, foods must be preserved.
One of the most controversial dams in history has been inaugurated. The Gibe III dam has put an end to the natural flooding of Ethiopia’s Omo River, on which 100,000 indigenous people depend and a further 100,000 rely indirectly. 
Experts have warned that this could also mean the end for Lake Turkana in Kenya – the world’s largest desert lake – and disaster for the 300,000 tribespeople living along its shores.
The dam was built by Italian engineering giant Salini Impregilo, against which Survival has filed a formal complaint that is still ongoing. Plans are now underway to build the Gibe IV and Gibe V dams downriver.
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Hi Joanna, I have followed this through from the first news of it. I don’t know what you think but I think its outrageous. Why can’t they leave these people alone to live their lives in peace. What can we do to help other than sign partitions.?
Rita,
I truly don’t know, but signing petitions and posting about this travesty is the least we can do I think. These and others are the bedrock of today’s cultures and people…how can we just obliterate these people or any people,as if they didn’t matter? I’m glad you found this.
Thanks Joanna. Lets hope that someone out there will listen and do something about it in favour of these people.
Let’s hope so, for all our sake.
I hope he world awakens to this outrageous situation and that protest
ours in. Indigenous cultures bring hope into an increasingly unstable world.
I couldn’t agree more!