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Mongabay Newscast #1: Panama's Barro Blanco Dam
Mongabay Newscast #1: Panama's Barro Blanco Dam
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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Sep 16, 2016
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Podcast episode
Description
For Mongabay Newscast #1, host Mike Gaworecki rounds up the week in top conservation news from around the world and then speaks with Mongabay.com editor Rebecca Kessler about the environmental impacts of the Barro Blanco Dam in Panama on indigenous communities, biodiversity, sacred sites, and the wider watershed. Mongabay has been covering this 28 MW hydro project for three years. The indigenous Ngäbe and Buglé indigenous groups maintain that they were not properly consulted about the project, yet the reservoir is currently filling as the dam undergoes a "test flooding." Read the story here. Reservoir photo by Oscar Sogandares.
Released:
Sep 16, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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