Dam-building spree pushes Amazon Basin’s aquatic life closer to extinction

Mongabay
Jun 22, 2023, 10:44 am164 pts
“People need to think about river basins or freshwater systems like a heart, a living system,” says Bernardo Caldas, from WWF-Brasil. Caldas is the co-lead author of a new study investigating how freshwater systems in the Amazon Basin are interconnected. It’s the first study of its kind to combine two…

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