Serious Problems In The Amazon

[Wills]

I dont know who else will have seen this article -

http/www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/content.php?sid=3329&utm_source=PFK_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=November_5_2010&utm_term=The_greatest_Amazon_River_disaster_in_history&utm_content=html

But basically this is just such a worrying article, the Amazon is dryed up and a lot of our favorite fishes lakes have dried up - the Rio Xingu and the Rio Negro are two that I know of that are bone dry at the moment.

Mix that with the fact that Brazil is implementing 100 hydro electric dams over the next few years which will destroy a stupid amount of the forests and lakes (the last one they built destroyed an area the size of Luxembourg).

This is just such a catastrophy its not even funny so many of the fish in the hobby will die out in this

Wills

 

[SlyPolak]

Yes it really does suck but.....

REPOST! exactly the same article was posted yesterday as ---> Heiko Bleher Blog On Amazon Crisis

they should just fly some ice bergs in there!!

 

[anon02]

Apart from the habitat, a goodly proportion of our oxygen is also being destroyed and weather patterns being altered

 

[chishnfips]

Its absolutely bonkers, are these places not protected? its not just that the fish will die out I bet that the river contributes to every single living thing in the amazon. the mind boggles.

 

[Wills]

eeek sorry didnt realise Goat had posted already ^^'''

Wills