Canal carved through Nicaragua will destroy rainforests, communities and wildlife
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 19:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The Nicaraguan government has granted a concession to a mysterious Chinese company owned by Jing Wang, a little-known Hong-Kong based businessman, to build an inter-oceanic canal. This would provide an alternative to the Panama Canal that, 99 years after it first opened, is struggling to cope with shipping.