Assessment of the Impact of Dams on River Regimes, Sediment Transports to the Sea, and Coastal Changes

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Twenty-First Century Conservation in Africa: Contemporary Dilemmas, Future Challenges

“…A World Bank communication estimates that climate change alone will result in the loss of over half of African bird and mammal species by 2100.1 Habitat loss and landscape fragmentation due to agricultural intensification, and the expansion of agricultural activities conditioned by growing population numbers, is an important driver for biodiversity loss (Perrings and Halkos 2015) and biological annihilation (Ceballos et al 2017). Rivers have been progressively impounded for hydroelectric use, causing large-scale ecological changes in aquatic biodiversity (Mahe et al 2018). Rapid deforestation linked to agricultural encroachment, and increasing commercial logging, is significant in many African countries.…”