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The Decline of Freshwater Ecosystems continues
Our Lima Bureau
31 DEC In South America, the Water Highway project a 3,400-kilometer shipping corridor, opening landlocked Paraguay and Bolivia, as well as parts of the Brazilian interior, to river trade has imperiling the 600 species of fish, 650 varieties of birds, 80 types of mammals, and more than 90,000 varieties of plants that inhabit the Pantanal.
In response to these threats At the World Bank and other development banks that had traditionally looked favorably on dams and other major water projects have shifted to emphasize a more thorough examination of the full benefits and costs of the these projects. In some parts of the world there has been a nascent trend toward restoring some damaged freshwater ecosystems. In Romania officials at the Biosphere reserve with funds from the world Bank's global environment Facility are breaching dikes & dams that are harmful to these endangered species.
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