Tapanuli. Photo by the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme. In a worldwide press release, researchers from ALERT strongly criticized an Indonesian corporation — for using “deplorable” tactics to promote a project that would imperil the world’s rarest species of great ape. The corporation, North Sumatera Hydro Energy (NSHE), is “pressuring …
Indigenous protests against Belo Monte at the UN’s sustainable development conference in Rio, 2012. Fernando Bizerra Jr / EPA There are few dams in the world that capture the imagination as much as Belo Monte, built on the “Big Bend” of the Xingu river in the Brazilian Amazon. Its …
Dam-building industry has once again demonstrated its full neglect to human needs and rights.Monday evening, July 23, a dam of the Xepian-Xe Nam Noy hydropower project in Southern Laos collapsed causing tremendous devastation in downstream villages and floodplains. This is at least the 4th major large dam failure during 2018, …
Agrawal starting his protest in Haridwar [image by: Tarun Bharat Sangh] GD Agrawal is in the hospital, under protective custody. It has been more than a month since he has eaten, but the frail old man is ready to give his life for the river he cares for more …
China’s National World Heritage Committee keeps its word! Three years ago Dr. Du Yue, secretary general of the Chinese delegation at the World Heritage Committee Session, listened to the RwB representative lamenting that Chinese Exim Bank was about to support the Egiin Gol Hydro Project in Mongolia which may threaten …
MONGOLIA made a speech at World Heritage Committee (WHC) on July 28 afternoon. Photo: Mongolia speaking at the 42nd Session of World Heritage Committee. Left to right: unknown person, the Head of the Division of Environmental Assessment and Auditing Enkhbat Altangerel, the State Secretary of the Ministry of Environment Mr. …
