Amazon Freshwater Ecosystems Are Vulnerable to Degradation

Broadening of forest-centric focus to river catchment-based conservation framework is required: A study published in Conservation Letters this week found that freshwater ecosystems in the Amazon are highly vulnerable to environmental degradation. River, lake and wetland ecosystems--encompassing approximately one-fifth of the Amazon basin area--are being increasingly degraded by deforestation, pollution, construction of dams and waterways, and over-harvesting of plant and animal species.

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