Category: <span>Shilka</span>

China’s green Belt and Road tested at Amazar – 俄罗斯项目考验绿色“一带一路”

The Amazar Pulp and Saw Mill (APSM) – the single most controversial forestry project in Siberia Chinese Version via link: 俄罗斯造纸项目考验绿色“一带一路”  One quarter of 214 million m3 of wood harvested in Russia is exported to China. In Asian Russia most logging is driven by signals from Chinese market. Facing growing …

We and Amur River Floods -Lesson (Un)learned?

The topic for the book with such teasing title  was selected due to outstanding flood that took place on transboundary Amur River in summer and autumn of 2013 and need to explore feasible options for integrated flood management jointly implemented by Russia and China. Now, as in September 2016 the …

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 …

NEW BOOK ON CLIMATE, ECOLOGY AND WATER MANAGEMENT IN DAURIA

If the Torey lakes dry up what chances they have to resurrect naturally? Where do birds go when rivers stop flowing in Dauria? Can the water diversion from Argun River into Dalai Lake help to protect nature? Is Shilka River a good place for hydropower generation? These and many other …

Sino-Russian export of disaster both ways

St Petersburg-based journalist Jenny Johnson the second time addresses Sino-Russian energy cooperation and dam-building efforts of EN+ company.  The Rivers without Boundaries Coalition started the campaign  on  Sino-Russian hydropower in 2011 warning  HK Exchange  on risks associated with Eursibenergo IPO and ever since continued to educate investors and the public on …