Fishers confirm scientists’ warning: Brazil’s Belo Monte dam killed off the river

Mongabay
Jun 8, 2023, 9:35 am153 pts
When it comes to the Belo Monte dam complex on the Xingu River in the Brazilian Amazon, biologists and fishers agree on one thing: this hydroelectric power plant, theoretically the fifth-largest in the world, has effectively purged the fish from this stretch of the river. The fishers, with their traditional…

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