The Beni River flows through the Bolivian Amazon, a bloodline for indigenous communities, rare species, and old-growth forests. Madid National Park, one of the most biodiverse places on earth, is sustained by the Beni. In this unique ecological zone of savannahs and cloud forests that make up the convergence of the Amazon basin and the Andes live indigenous groups in voluntary isolation, over 1,000 species of birds and butterflies and around 300 endangered jaguars. More than a dozen indigenous communities rely on the Beni for their livelihoods, but the river, and many others in Bolivia, are now at risk as the country is planning 35 hydroelectric plants by 2025. The largest proposed megaproject is the construction of two dams on the Beni River, the Bala and Chepete, which together would inundate an area of 680 square kilometers. Much of the projected floodplain are Native Community Lands, Tierras Comunitarias de Origen (TCO), which is land owned by indigenous people and protected by the Constitution. The Tacana people depend on the Beni River for fishing and their only mode of transportation, therefore at least 1,500 people would face serious challenges to survival with the construction of the Bala-Chepete hydroelectric plant. The entire Mosetenes indigenous community would be displaced as TCO land in Madid National Park is flooded. Despite the devastating effect these dams would have on the indigenous nations, the government and Italian engineering company, GEODATA, failed to seek the Free, Prior, and Informed consent (FPIC) of the affected communities before conducting a land study, breaking the laws of the Bolivian Constitution and international conventions.