Hydropower Dams Threaten Amazon’s Wildlife

[Still Waters]

As countries build more hydropower projects, new research warns that massive dams pose an extinction threat to mammals, birds and tortoises - at least in the Amazon.

"We're watching extinction unfold right in front of us," says co-author Carlos Peres, a Brazilian professor at the university's School of Environmental Sciences. "We uncovered astounding local extinction rates," he says, even in areas that belong to a biological reserve and are protected from hunting.

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