Water Diversion To Belo Monte Impacts Fish Reproduction on Xingu River (Portuguese)
Without fish, people of the Xingu Great Bend face the pandemic with food insecurity.
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Without fish, people of the Xingu Great Bend face the pandemic with food insecurity.
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