Year: <span>2015</span>

A New Wildlife Refuge established on the Shilka and Upper Amur River

It finally happened…. One more battle for Nature has been won by our joint efforts! The Governor of Zabaikalsky Province signed the decree to establish Verkhneamursky (Upper Amur) Wildlife Refuge in Mogochinsky district of Zabaikalsky Province on the area of 239,639 hectares. It took several years to prepare feasibility assessment …

Ewenki leader Sergey Nikiforov declared a prisoner of conscience

Sergei Nikiforov, an Evenki indigenous people’s leader and environmental rights defender has been imprisoned for opposing a gold mining project in the Amur region, in Russia’s Far East, after an unfair trial. He is a prisoner of conscience. Sergei Nikiforov is an environmental rights defender and an Evenki indigenous leader …

EBRD-China tandem may exacerbate hydropower crisis in Europe?

EBRD-China tandem may exacerbate hydropower crisis in Europe? A wave of hydropower development fueled by European public funding and EU companies may be further exacerbated by China’s membership in EBRD. A new study, that Bankwatch  deals with European public funding and EU companies, which are fuelling a wave of hydropower …

Strategic Assessment for the Silk Road

“Pure Growth Vitamins” from BRICS Magazine Huge cross-border projects that will be financed by new development institutes threaten to create dangerous differences in environmental standards ‘race to the bottom’. However, the problem can still be solved. Three separatet disasters in the Russian Far East in 2005, 2007, and 2010 that …

Save the Lake Baikal – a victim of climate and hydropower

An appeal  to the Paris Climate Summit in from the Northeast Asia’s leading environmental groups and research institutions Many government and industry players market large hydropower, as a "solution for climate change", while in reality it often exacerbates climate change, impacts on resilience of aquatic ecosystems and diminishes the adaptation …

Mongolian River-protection activists released

  Dear Friends: Union of Mongolian River and Lake Movements (UMMRL) is delighted to share with you good news that Munkhbayar and Tumurbaatar were released on 6th November after the amendments to the Amnesty Law of Mongolia were finally approved. They spent in jail two years out of their original …