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Save the Serengeti editor's pick
http://www.savetheserengeti.org/
encourages action against the construction of a major commercial highway across the Serengeti National Park, in the direct path of ancient wildlife migration routes
Added: Sep. 19, 2010 | Rate It
Amazon Watch popular updated
works with indigenous and environmental organizations in the Amazon Basin to advance indigenous peoples' rights and defend the environment from large-scale industrial development
Added: Jan. 12, 2001 | Rate It
Culture Change
http://www.culturechange.org/cms/index.php
an on-line magazine produced by the Sustainable Energy Institute that seeks to demonstrate alternatives to sprawl and petroleum dependence while fighting unwise development such as new road construction
Added: Sep. 07, 2002 | Rate It
Curse of Copper, The
http://foecanada.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=244&Itemid=113
Friends of the Earth Canada presents a video about attempts by Ascendant Copper to build a strip mine in the cloud forests of Ecuador against the wishes of the inhabitants
Added: May. 21, 2006 | Rate It
DamRight!
http://assets.panda.org/downloads/investorsguidedams.pdf
WWF's dams initiative presents a highly critical investor's guide to river dam construction (pdf)
Added: Mar. 30, 2003 | Rate It
Dams and megaprojects
http://www.wrm.org.uy/deforestation/dams.html
articles published in the World Rainforest Movement bulletin that highlight dams and megaprojects as a major cause of deforestation
Added: Feb. 24, 2001 | Rate It
Dams, forests and people
http://www.wrm.org.uy/bulletin/42.html
the World Rainforest Movement focuses on dams and megaprojects as a threat to rainforests around the world
Added: Feb. 10, 2001 | Rate It
Friends of the River Narmada
presents the perspective of grassroots people's organizations on the issue of dam building on the River Narmada in central India
Added: Jan. 03, 2001 | Rate It
Hidrovia Canal Plan and Environment (HIDROVIA Case)
http://www1.american.edu/TED/hidrovia.htm
discusses the proposed waterway to link the heart of South America with the Atlantic Ocean, but potentially ruining the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland
Added: Feb. 10, 2001 | Rate It
Laos and Hydroelectric Power
http://www1.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/laosdam.htm
this case study explores negative effects of the Nam Theun 2 Dam on the ecological integrity of the river ecosystem and surrounding areas, from American University's Trade and Environment Database
Added: Feb. 10, 2001 | Rate It
Mekong River Dam
http://www1.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/mekong.htm
a case study that challenges the utility of building hydroelectric dams, from American University's Trade and Environment Database
Added: Feb. 10, 2001 | Rate It
Pan-American Highway and the Environment (PANAM)
http://www1.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/panam.htm
examines the threat posed by the Pan-American Highway to the lush rainforest in the Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama, a case study from American University's TED database
Added: Feb. 10, 2001 | Rate It
Roadless Area Local Reports
http://www.ourforests.org/localreports/index.html
the Heritage Forests Campaign details threats to America's roadless forests, with detailed impacts upon each region's forests
Added: May. 12, 2004 | Rate It
World Commission on Dams
http://www.internationalrivers.org/node/348
an International Rivers project that established the most comprehensive guidelines for dam building; intended to protect dam-affected people and the environment, and ensure that the benefits from dams are more equitably distributed
Added: Dec. 16, 2001 | Rate It



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