A dam built in the Amazon created thousands of ‘forest islands’ but they are too small to sustain most species
A dam built in the Amazon created thousands of ‘forest islands’ but they are too small to sustain most species: The Balbina Dam (bottom right) created thousands of small islands. Google Earth, CC BY-SA Built in the 1980s, the Balbina Dam is one of dozens of large dams across rivers in the Amazon Basin. Such …
