Why did Brazil's vegetation coverage rise despite new hydropower project?
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- 14 Mar 2022
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Spanning from the Amazon area in Brazil's northwest to Rio de Janeiro in the southeast, the 2,543-km-long Belo Monte-Rio de Janeiro 800kV power transmission line is the world's longest.
The super project covers the Amazon rainforest, the Cerrado savanna and the Atlantic coastal mountains, where many rare plants grow.
When the project was finished, the vegetation coverage didn't decrease; on the contrary, it increased. And behind that result is the work of many Chinese and Brazilians, a concrete example of Belt and Road cooperation.
The Belo Monte-Rio de Janeiro transmission line is the second phase of the Belo Monte project, which is invested in, constructed by and operated by the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC). Read More...
