Giant Catfish Faces Dam Risk In Asia

[kewskills]

National Geographic Website article

 

[jourdy288]

Sad.

 

[darknirvana217]

Thats too bad.

 

[CFC]

Its ironic that just as western civilisation is removing dams and returning rivers to their natural courses after learning of the effects they have on the aquatic wildlife the rest of the world is building them destroying habitats and sending thousands of fish to extinction. This is by far not the worst case, the proposed daming of the Rio Xingu in south America is beleived to be about to cause the largest mass extinction of aquatic life ever known.

 

[darknirvana217]

Damming in the Amazon is extremely dangerous. They are finding that hydroelectric dams are stirring up large amounts of methane gas that has built up on the bottom over the years from decay from branches, leaves, and other organic matter. The gas is surfacing and is causing four times more atmospheric damage than coal plants.