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Free-flowing rivers - Economic Luxury or Ecological necessity - Madeira River (Amazon) is one of the case studies
Wild rivers are earth’s renegades,
defying gravity, dancing to their
own tunes, resisting the authority
of humans, always chipping away,
and eventually always winning.
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- Location: -9.47,-64.82
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