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China’s dams threaten unique river species

By Graham Land Wed, May 16, 2012 9:04AM UTC View Comments

THE Yangtze River is still home to some amazing marine life, but projects like the construction of the Xiaonanhai Dam, the latest in a series of 12 dams constructed by the Three Gorges Corporation, may spell the end for several rare species. Environmental groups, including China’s Friends of Nature (FON), believe that the Xiaonanhai Dam...

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Future shock for Kaziranga wildlife: 70 dams in Arunachal

By Subir Ghosh Tue, Oct 25, 2011 12:04PM UTC View Comments

The large dams on the Siang, Dibang, Lohit and the Subansiri are likely to trigger changes in the flood cycle and hydrological relationship of the KNP forests with the river Brahmaputra maintained through exchange of surface, sub-surface and ground water flow. Photo: Aaranyak

The main threat to Kaziranga National Park in the next 25 years will come not from poachers or encroachers, but the 70 dams that are being built in the Eastern Himalayas of India’s Northeast. Experts who have just completed a study of the region fear that Kaziranga National Park and Manas National Park, both World...

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Water in Pakistan is not just a political issue, it’s a survival issue

By Ahsan Butt Wed, Jul 20, 2011 7:12AM UTC View Comments

I was reading Alice Albinia’s Empires of the Indus and came across this interesting passage. The context is that the author is on a fisherman’s boat around the Indus Delta, and explaining the larger history behind it drying up. Pakistan, in its turn, began building the Kotri barrage, just north of Thatta. This dam, like...

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Burma’s war in Kachin directly related to Chinese dams?

By Zin Linn Sat, Jul 02, 2011 11:31PM UTC View Comments

Kachin residents have been undergoing robberies and assaults by Burmese soldiers amid the civil war in the Kachin State since June 9, Kachin News Group [KNG] has reported. Burmese soldiers in plain clothes are robbing travelers to loot them of their money and other belongings around the Irrawaddy dam project at Myitsone, 27 miles north...

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