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March 2015
The Great Rivers Partnership is a global effort to advance sustainable management of the world's great rivers for people and nature. The GRP focuses on entire river systems and brings stakeholders together with the best available science to develop innovative solutions to the complex issues threatening freshwater health and sustainability.
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Learn more about the Great Rivers Partnership and its global water initiatives.
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© Brian Sidlauskas |
In the fall of 2014, The Nature Conservancy and CENAREST (the Gabonese Scientific Research Center) led a scientific expedition to the Ogooué River. The international team of scientists set forth with the goal of documenting the river's biodiversity at key locations around Lastourville, in the Ogooué-Lolo province of southeastern Gabon.
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© Robert S. Donovan/Flickr |
Water infrastructure across the United States is aging. The average Army Corps dam is more than 60 years old, and few water-control plans guiding the operation of large, federal dams have been revised since their development decades ago. That means there's a real opportunity to influence the way these structures are operated to account for and benefit from the role nature can play in large river systems.
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© Steve Herrington |
A new technique is helping scientists protect the Alabama shad, which once swarmed Gulf-coast rivers as far north as Iowa by the millions to spawn. But shad populations plummeted in the last century, as dams blocked their path upriver.
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© UN |
From placements in top-tier global outlets such as Bloomberg Business to articles in key trade publications such as American City & County, news from GRP partners reached readers across the globe this quarter - promoting natural solutions and whole-basin conservation.
