Tigers, jaguars under threat from tropical hydropower projects: Study

Mongabay
Dec 9, 2021, 11:25 am283 pts
The flooding of land for hydroelectric dams has affected more than one-fifth of the world’s tigers (Panthera tigris) and one in two hundred jaguars (Panthera onca), according to the findings of a new study published Dec. 9 in the journal Communications Biology. Seen by some as a low-carbon solution to global…

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