Toward resilient rivers
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Forests are essential for healthy freshwater ecosystems to thrive. Deforestation and forest degradation across watersheds and along riverbanks can lead to declines in water quality and quantity, shifts in flow timing, reductions in abundance and health of fish populations, and loss of biodiversity. These changes often negatively affect the livelihoods and food security of already impoverished communities near rivers and lakes, particularly in land locked and low-income countries with high dependence on freshwater systems. The Infobrief summarises data and information from the Kafue River basin in Zambia and the Atrato and Magdalena River basins in Colombia on population, land use, forest cover, and climate. It highlights how the forest-water-fish linkages are essential for peoples livelihoods in these basins. It further summarises aspects of current legislation in the basins and provides recommendations for future watershed management and governance.