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Several dams are planned in protected areas along Europe's Mura river © Matevž Lenarčič
August 7, 2020
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More than 500 dams are planned or under construction within protected areas, according to a new study published in Conservation Letters. These findings raise red flags as dams can have detrimental impacts on livelihoods of local communities such as fishing and floodplain farming, species movements, sediment flows to downstream deltas and floodplains, and other critical river functions.

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