1 Million Fish Dead in Bolivian Ecological Disaster

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(3 Aug. 2010 - Update: The number of dead fish and other water-dependent wildlife has increased to about 6 million.)

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Over 1 million fish and thousands of alligators, turtles, dolphins and other river wildlife are floating dead in numerous Bolivian rivers in the three eastern/southern departments of Santa Cruz, Beni and Tarija. The extreme cold front that hit Bolivia in mid-July caused water temperatures to dip below the minimum temperatures river life can tolerate. As a consequence, rivers, lakes, lagoons and fisheries are brimming with decomposing fish and other creatures.

(Video at link)

http://www.boliviabella.com/1-million-fish-dead-in-bolivian-ecological-disaster.html


What the hell's happening to our planet?

[PDJane]

1. It's dying, and we're to blame.

[pscot]

2. The great Anthropocene extinction

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