Northwestern Yunnan is one of the world’s most biologically diverse areas, home to half of China’s animal species and a quarter of its plant species. Whatever portions of this ecosystem that the dams don’t submerge are certain to be disrupted in potentially disastrous ways.
但是，有可能得不偿失。西南部的云南省是世界上生物物种最为多样的地区之一，拥有中国一半的动物种类和四分之一的植物种类。这些生态系统即使不被水坝所吞没，也几乎肯定会被打破，后患无穷。