The endangered Wattled Crane depends on the waters of the Zambezi River. |
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Why We Care
What We Do For more than 15 years, ICF has been leading international efforts to rehabilitate the Zambezi River system. We are engaged in the Zambezi River Environmental Flows Partnership with World Wildlife Fund and other colleagues in Africa to manage the quantity, quality, and timing of river flows for people and wildlife in balance with hydropower and other needs.
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Can dams and cranes co-exist? This is a central question to ICF’s work along the Zambezi River, where both human communities and cranes depend on the mighty river’s annual flood cycles. ICF’s research in the Zambezi River basin began with studies of the long-term changes in the annual timing, magnitude, and duration of Zambezi water flows caused by dams, such as the Cahora Bassa pictured below, and how these changes were adversely affecting Endangered Wattled Cranes.
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