Category: <span>World Heritage Convention</span>

Category: World Heritage Convention

Baikal Lake, Greening Silk Road, World Heritage Convention

Russian President Asked Enforcement Agencies to Save Baikal. Chinese Business is Worried…

On September 12 the President approved a list of instructions to ensure compliance with the Law on Lake Baikal’s conservation and environmental rehabilitation. The Government of the Russian Federation has been instructed to review issues pertaining to Russia’s compliance with its commitments on the conservation of Lake Baikal as a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site; the review of the activities of the interdepartmental commission on the conservation of Lake Baikal and improvement of its performance; …

Essential Publications, Featured, Solidarity, World Heritage Convention

Threats to Freshwater Ecosystems, World Heritage and Global Conservation Efforts Must Be Removed From the EU Taxonomy

On Monday, September 16, the EU Commission of finance stops accepting comments on the second draft of the Technical report on “EU Taxonomy (of activities for sustainable development eligible for green funding)”. The report sets out the basis for a future EU taxonomy in legislation, contains technical screening criteria for 67 activities across …

Amur, Gobi Groundwater, Greening Silk Road, Solidarity, World Heritage Convention, Yenisey

Old energy minister gets a new term…in prison

Former Mongolian Energy Minister M.Sonompil was sentenced to four years in prison over the abuse of power on Wednesday, 24 July 2019. M.Sonompil worked as Energy Minister between 2012 and 2016. Those were decisive years when energy development in Mongolia fell victim of corruption and political favors. Instead of pursuing …

Solidarity, World Heritage Convention

“Test killing” of Tigris River by Turkish Authorities Has Started

The Turkish government has started filling the controversial Ilisu Dam Reservoir on the Tigris River in the Kurdish Southeast of Turkey. Photos shared on social media from the 23rd July 2019 showed how a road along the Tigris River just upstream of the dam has been flooded. New photos from …

Solidarity, World Heritage Convention

Liberation of the Selune River – Work in Progress

Work in Progress Notes of Eco-Pilgrim by Eugene Simonov RwB’s Eugene Simonov spent his “Tigris River Solidarity Day” at Selune River in Normandy, where two dams are being decommissioned to restore ecosystem and spawning paths of Atlantic Salmon. These are his notes from this trip. The hydroelectric dams of La …

Solidarity, World Heritage Convention

Jump in Tigris River at tranquil Selune Estuary

Resistance continues against Ilisu Dam! Following a call by the Initiative to Keep Alive (HYG) and the Mesopotamia Ecology Movement (MEM) for the “Big Jump” ecology activists in Hasankeyf, Turkey and the world protested the controversial Ilisu Dam on the 14th of July. This action day is the continuation of …