Chief Researcher from Baikalsky Biosphere Reserve testifying on possible threats to the Lake Baikal ecosystems at the WB consultations in Kabansk, Russia, March 2017.(Photo: RwB) Kenneth Rapoza has published in “Forbes” a detailed account of the several potentially damaging dams planned in Lake Baikal basin in Mongolia. We publish …
This Declaration was adopted at the Civil Society Workshop «The New Silk Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): Towards Responsible Social and Environmental Policies and Practices» held on November 18, 2016 in Moscow , Russia, and attended by 20 NGOs from 11 countries and is open for signing\ joining by …
NGOs appeal to the Board of the Green Climate Fund to abstain from large dams and do better risk assessment Friends of Earth initiated an appeal to the Green Climate Fund that may become another pocket to enrich large corporations and international banks instead of becoming a vehicle for …
Great Amur River saved by rivalry and mistrust may be degraded in the name of friendship. Taipingou -mysterious heart of the Amur-Heilong river The new vision of "Ecological Civilization" put forward by China’s Communist Party is coming to a decisive test as leading "new clean energy" company Hanergy, which suffered …
Dear President Ts.Elbegdorj, Dear Bonn Convention Secretary Dr.Chambers: On the World Fish Migration Day[1] the Rivers without Boundaries Coalition is appealing to you on behalf of the Baikal Sturgeon – Acipenser baerii baicalensis – critically endangered creature inhabiting only Baikal-Selenge Basin in Mongolia and Russia. This species is listed in …
RwB’s International Coordinator Eugene Simonov on March 5 took part in the 2016 Annual Meeting of Heilongjiang Provincial Association for Northeast Asian Studies/ in Harbin City. Environmental Section of the Meeting gathered members of the Amur-Okhotsk Consortium from Japan, Mongolia, China and Russia. Dr. Simonov summarized most important environmental …
