Imazon accuses 'significant increase' in Amazon deforestatio

[PlecoCrazy]

Just a sad news report I came across on facebook.

Imazon accuses 'significant increase' in Amazon deforestation

[Sam]

There is a lot more going off in that manner than we are being told here in the uk

[Jools]

There is a lot more going off in that manner than we are being told here in the uk

Sambo,

I've read a lot of your posts today. I appreciate you are a new user to the site. What evidence can you provide to support your statement above? Or is it just your opinion?

Many thanks,

Jools

[Sam]

was an article I read about the damming of the amazon rivers i beleive to have been written by heiko blehrer, mentioned was that more than just the L046 rivers are to be affected and were pictures of boats in the middle of a dried up river as a result of a dam
still searching my history for the page- thanks

[Sam]

Ok it's on practical fish keeping magazine's website
knew it was somewhere

[MatsP]

Ehm, the "boats on the river bed" was due to lack of rain in the Rio Negro basin, nothing to do with damming as far as I'm aware. But there are indeed a lot of projects for damming various rivers in the Amazon drainage.

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Mats

[Sam]

I stand corrected, sorry fellas/misses
good picture eh?

[Sam]

I'm definitely somebody who wants to know though another.
the last part of the quote read
In addition, Brazil's outgoing President gave the green light for 100 hydroelectric dams to be build in Amazonia – Belo Monte on the Xingu is the only one mentioned in the media. Is this the harmony with nature we are looking for? Besides that, once all is gone these hydroelectric dams will stop functioning - like the Balbina dam near Manaus, the biggest and first environmental disaster in Amazonia, because after they had destroyed an area in the size of Luxemburg, there was no more water...

With all of these facts, can there be still anyone still asking why we are having this environmental disaster in the Amazon?

I hope that Man wakes up before it is really too late...

Breed your aquarium fish and take care of them!

-but hey thats if it doesn't get read to save people skimming although I did incorrectly state the pic was as a result of damming, the point still remains