Water, water, everywhere
March was an important month for Europe’s rivers.
On the International Day of Action for Rivers, 14 March, hundreds of Svans from Georgia’s remote Caucasus mountains marched in Tbilisi to call on the government and international financiers to suspend plans for harmful hydropower projects and to assert their rights as indigenous peoples. More protests are planned later in April.
The protests were followed by the release of our new report, which uncovered the funding that is fueling a hydropower tsunami in the Balkans and threatening some of Europe’s last remaining wild rivers.
We found that hundreds of hydropower plants are planned in protected and internationally-recognised areas of high biodiversity value.
The good news is that more than a thousand projects still lack the necessary funding.
You can help us by calling on the financiers to stop bankrolling the destruction of these pristine waterways.
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