China's proposed expansion of hydropower dams is not the solution.
The rapid rivers of Sichuan are packed with hydropower dams.
In mid-February, the ministry of environment and forests virtually approved six hydropower dams.
The deaths result from conflicts over mining, hydropower dams, plantations and logging, with three-quarters of the lives lost being in South America.
At least three of Cáceres's colleagues, also protesting against the Agua Zarca cascade of four giant hydropower dams, had been murdered previously.
Green sources are only expected to provide 28% of electricity generation by 2021, up from 23% in 2015, and much of that will be from existing hydropower dams.
"The hydropower dams under construction, or on the drawing board in Arunachal Pradesh, appear to be an enormous source of anxiety in Assam," he said.
Land grabs are especially common in the north-west and central highlands, where state-affiliated firms often demand property concessions for mines, plantations and hydropower dams.
But now there are plans by the Duc Long Gia Lai company to raze 400 hectares of Cat Tien to generate two hydropower dams.
In recent decades, the populations of all three have declined as much as ninety-nine per cent, due to a suite of factors: coastal development, fishing, and hydropower dams, as well as disease and predation.
According to American Rivers, an advocacy group and a major player in the Edwards Dam campaign, about 430 outdated dams (some of them small hydropower dams like Edwards) have been removed with both public and private funding.
