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The Rio Teta's snail darter? It's a species of Marchantia, a shade-loving plant that provides just a bit of the ground cover near Rio Teta, below the site where a dam that's being built without benefit of an environmental impact statement is mostly installed by now. This particular plant has not been identified in Panama province for more than 20 years and was thought to be locally extinct. The dam upstream will reduce the water flow near where this diminutive specimen grows, and could make it actually disappear from the area. The dam has already aroused the opposition of surfers, because it will eventually eliminate the sand bar at the river's mouth and thus eliminate the wave dynamics that make the beach there a popular surfing spot. Because the hydroelectric function of the dam appears to be spurious --- it's being built to provide water for development projects and maybe lakefront lots behind the dam and the supposed electric generating part of the facility is of ridiculously cheap used materials and grossly inferior construction --- others are opposed to the project because it's an attempt to circumvent the jurisdiction and requirements of the National Environmental Authority (ANAM) by the simple expedient of improperly attaching the label "hydroelectric."
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