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New study suggests that mercury contamination is widespread among residents of the Amazon

By Julia Dolce 17 de March de 202231 de March de 2022

Although living 186 miles away from the area along the Tapajós River where illegal mining is concentrated, Santarém’s inhabitants are at high risk of mercury poisoning.

Amazonian catfish’s 5,000-mile migration endangered by dams

By Rollin Hu 24 de June de 201614 de September de 2020

More than 400 dams are planned on being built, are being built or have been built in the Amazon Basin. These dams disrupt the impressive migration of Amazonian catfish, a commercially valuable fish and apex predator in the environment.

Keeping Amazon fish connected is key to their conservation

By Annika McGinnis 17 de May de 201614 de September de 2020

Unless a system-wide approach to conservation is applied to Amazon basin lakes, floodplains and rivers, we could soon see a collapse of the region’s fish populations.

Amazon indians at risk in mercury poisoning crisis

By Annika McGinnis 12 de April de 201614 de September de 2020

Illegal gold mining in the Amazon has a devastating effect on indigenous peoples. Miners bring disease, deforestation and murder. Then long after they have gone, communities are left to suffer deadly mercury poisoning.

Belo Monte dam, in Brazil, is fined $ 4 million per death of fish

By Giovanny Vera 22 de February de 201614 de September de 2020

Norte Energia concessionaire, owner of the Belo Monte Dam, under construction on the Xingu River, Brazil, was fined due to the large amount of dead fish as a result of the plant’s reservoir filling.

Belo Monte dam threatens 50 fish species unique in the world

By Giovanny Vera 12 de January de 201614 de September de 2020

Experts claim that 450 dams can destroy one third of the world’s freshwater fishes in the Amazon, Congo and Mekong basins, where live 4000 species of freshwater fishes live.

Ichthyofauna of Madeira: books show the varieties of fishes of this river

By Giovanny Vera 14 de September de 201514 de September de 2020

Collection of books available in digital format is a source of information for researchers on local biodiversity

The giant Amazonian catfish threatened by energy demand

By Giovanny Vera 13 de May de 201514 de September de 2020

A new study suggests that the catfish’s sensitive life cycle—complete with long journeys timed to coincide with seasonal river flows—may be interrupted by dams in their last remaining refuge.

Fishing communities to be displaced by dams want a say in their future

By Giovanny Vera 24 de April de 201514 de September de 2020

Tapajos river fishers may join the group of Brazilians who need public assistance to feed themselves. The federal government has started a series of infrastructure projects that will take the fish away from the fishermen.

Amazon fishermen want to reduce time of moratorium on piracatinga fish

By Giovanny Vera 31 de March de 201514 de September de 2020

Just entered into force a ban on fishing and marketing of piracatinga ( Calophysus macropterus </ em>) to contain the indiscriminate killing of dolphins and caimans, and fishermen in the state of Amazonas began to articulate to reduce the moratorium

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