Fishers confirm scientists' warning: Brazil's Belo Monte dam killed off the river
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 knowledge of the Xingu’s pulse […]
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