Did you know that when a dam is built across a major river there are all kinds of ecological consequences?
Did you know that when a dam is built across a major river there are all kinds of ecological consequences?
Three Gorges Dam in China
This dam project could destroy forest habitat for countless numbers of animals, and change river cycles that have been occurring for thousands of years. Here’s what the World Wildlife organization has to say:
“The Three Gorges Dam project, set to dam the Yangtze at the upper end of the Chiangjiang Plain, is the largest waterworks project in human history. Scheduled for completion in 2009, it is intended to reduce flood damage downstream and to generate clean electricity. There has been much concern about the ecological costs of this project. At the very least, it threatens to alter greatly the hydrological cycles, which are fundamental to the ecology of lakes like Poyang and Dongting. Ecological consequences of the Three Gorges Dam project, and feasible mitigation strategies, need careful consideration.”
Retrieved from World Wildlife.org 5/2006