Damming The Balkans
The Balkans are abode to Europe's concluding dandy wild rivers. But non for much longer. 3,000 dam projects are nigh to devastate the natural habitats together with surrounding landscapes of Europe's concluding untamed waterways.
Save the Blue Heart of Europe is a drive to enhance awareness of the ecological harm beingness done to Balkan rivers together with their environments together with to petition international banks to terminate funding the devastation of Europe's concluding wild rivers. This drive includes an interactive map showcasing some of the harm beingness done past times hydropower dams. The interactive map shows the place of the 1,003 dams inwards the region, the 188 currently beingness built together with the 2,798 proposed novel dams.
If you lot scroll downwards patch viewing the map you lot volition survive taken on a tour of the percentage together with its rivers. For representative the map zooms-in on the Vjosa river, inwards Albania, where 38 hydropower dams lead maintain been proposed. The map every bit good highlights some of the other natural environments inwards the percentage which are right away inwards danger from the structure of novel dams.
Around the the world to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than rivers are beingness dammed. Decades of dam edifice has Pb to the global impoverishment inwards the wellness of the world's river basins, pitiful H2O lineament together with depression biodiversity.
International Rivers has released an interactive map which illustrates the lawsuit of dams on the wellness of rivers roughly the world.
Using the map you lot tin explore how private river basins rank inwards damage of fragmentation, biodiversity, together with H2O quality. You tin every bit good explore 10 of the world's most pregnant river basins inwards to a greater extent than depth. Each of these 10 detailed explorations examines the threats from dam edifice on the wellness of the affected river together with the immediate environment.