The Nicaraguan Academy of Sciences noted that hundreds of thousands of hectares of pristine forests and wetlands would be destroyed and pointed out that the environmental study performed for the canal was not independent.
尼加拉瓜科学院指出，数十万公顷的原始森林和湿地将遭灭顶之灾，並声称专为运河开凿而做的环境研究并非独立进行。