More bad news from the world of exotic fish. The Brazilian government signed a contract to build a water power plant and dam on the Xingu River. In terms of volumes will be the third project of this kind in the world and is the second in Brazil. The signing of the decision for several months has been blocked by many opponents of the project, including all ecological organizations on world cinema fame.
Xingu River is one of the main Amazon river basin and is home to vast quantities of exotic fish, including many endemic species (species absent anywhere else on earth). One of them is even such world famous aquarium such as zebra Hypancistrus (formerly L-46). Many species from these areas has not even been discovered and it appears that it will never be.
For those who do not know what the consequences for the fauna of the river carries to the dam construction, organization Amazon Watch and the International Rivers along with Google Earth created a video showing what happens when the Xingu river will be obstructed. Aquarium is a blog, so in his texts focus exclusively on fish, but in this case, they not only suffer. At risk is the whole rain forest, and with it the animals that populate it, as well as people.
Belo Monte dam construction is to give rise to a gigantic project, which envisages the construction of over a hundred there, in the Amazon basin, which can turn the most wonderful river in the world in an endless string of frozen wetlands.
Recently a famous diver, said aquarium maintenance contributes significantly to the destruction of coral reefs. Certainly this was quite right. However, in such moments as this, aquarium maintenance can be the only chance to make some wonderful and unique species of fish do not hit the red list of bookmarked Extinct.
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