Biodiversity conservation in hydropower projects:introducing biodiversity impact assessment into environmental impact assessment of hydropower projects
In the last decades,high intensity human activities hardly affect species diversity,so the prob?lem of biodiversity conservation has become the focus all over the world. In this paper,we introduced the concept of biodiversity impact assessment into hydropower projects environment impact assessment,and sum?marized the evaluation program of biodiversity impact assessment and made detailed analyses of hydroelec?tric projects' impacts on biodiversity. Based on the concept and the analysis, this paper discussed how to introduce the biodiversity impact assessment into the environmental impact assessment of hydroelectric proj?ects in order to promote the development of biodiversity impact assessment.