Sentence examples for river dwellers from inspiring English sources

To the river dwellers all visitors seem impossibly well-off.

The typical kingfishers (subfamily Alcedininae) are river dwellers, like the belted kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon), the only widespread North American species.

But ever since the engineers in Brasília rolled out the blueprints for damming the Xingu two decades ago, the project has attracted powerful opposition.Environmental groups and river dwellers say Belo Monte will flood vast patches of rainforest while desiccating others.

The overall project included four harbour sites, the resettlement of river dwellers, the rescue of game, and the introduction of Tilapia fish to the waters to give a 15,000-ton 15,000-tonallyield

Known in Portuguese either as caboclos, a term equivalent to hillbilly, or more respectfully as ribeirinhos, or river dwellers, they have limited incomes and little contact with the rest of Brazil.

Others say it will block the flow of nutrients to floodplains farmed by river dwellers.Many suspect that the builders are after something more ambitious: opening the upper Madeira to navigation by fitting the dams with locks.

What makes the Babcock-Wheaton marriage especially interesting is that Babcock was also a river dweller.

Most river-dwellers interviewed for this story spoke of loneliness, hardship and the specter of addiction.

Ryan Loofbourrow, the executive director of Sacramento Steps Forward, said river-dwellers tended to be more rugged and organized than urban homeless.

We focus on rivers as they pass through cities, and the relationships between these rivers and city dwellers.

Rabun County has just 17,000 people, but the population nearly doubles in the summer as river guides and city dwellers escape to the mountains for a few months.