The Balkans are domicile to Europe's final slap-up wild rivers. But non for much longer. 3,000 dam projects are nigh to devastate the natural habitats as well as surrounding landscapes of Europe's final untamed waterways.
Save the Blue Heart of Europe is a displace to enhance awareness of the ecological harm existence done to Balkan rivers as well as their environments as well as to petition international banks to cease funding the devastation of Europe's final wild rivers. This displace includes an interactive map showcasing some of the harm existence done past times hydropower dams. The interactive map shows the location of the 1,003 dams inwards the region, the 188 currently existence built as well as the 2,798 proposed novel dams.
If y'all scroll downwardly piece viewing the map y'all volition hold out taken on a tour of the share as well as its rivers. For lawsuit the map zooms-in on the Vjosa river, inwards Albania, where 38 hydropower dams lead maintain been proposed. The map besides highlights some of the other natural environments inwards the share which are straight off inwards danger from the structure of novel dams.
Around the basis to a greater extent than as well as to a greater extent than rivers are existence dammed. Decades of dam edifice has atomic number 82 to the global impoverishment inwards the wellness of the world's river basins, pathetic H2O character as well as depression biodiversity.
International Rivers has released an interactive map which illustrates the lawsuit of dams on the wellness of rivers some the world.
Using the map y'all tin explore how private river basins rank inwards damage of fragmentation, biodiversity, as well as H2O quality. You tin besides explore x of the world's most meaning river basins inwards to a greater extent than depth. Each of these x detailed explorations examines the threats from dam edifice on the wellness of the affected river as well as the immediate environment.
