Fears that Nicaragua’s Grand Canal Will Despoil the “Galápagos of Central America”

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According to plans by the Chinese company HKND Group, 106.8 kilometers of the planned interoceanic Grand Canal of Nicaragua will go through Lake Cocibolca or Lake Nicaragua, as it is also called.  The largest freshwater body in Central America, the lake is known as the “Galapagos of Central America” because of its great biological diversity.  Environmentalists say that the lake’s biodiversity would be ravished by the canal. 

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