The Silk Road Initiative lacks clear environmental safeguards and specific green development guidelines. The China-backed Egin Gol Hydropower Project in Mongolia could disturb the sensitive ecosystem of the lake. Every Chinese person knows about one place in Siberia – Lake Baikal. It is not necessarily famous for its unique biodiversity …
Fragile agreement on Aral Sea Basin water resource management is likely getting a decisive blow from Kyrgyzstan. Upstream country threatens to leave agreement May 19,2016 Kyrgyzstan decided to "freeze" its participation in the activities of International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website reported. …
Gezhouba Co. brought to extinction sturgeons of Yangtze River basin and came to Lake Baikal basin with the same mission? According to WWF Report on sturgeons released on World Fish Migration day 2016 endemic sturgeons of China are facing extinction: It is interesting to note that major event that …
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 …
Despite overwhelming evidence, that large dams are no solution to energy and climate and damage severely our environment, the WB top official stubbornly support suicidal course his institution is taking. He bluntly ignores the fact that by supporting large dams everywhere from Mongolia to Africa his institution is destroying most …
The Minister of natural resources of remote Buryatia Republic Mr. Yury Safyanov came to Moscow to seek response to extreme concerns voiced by local villagers living on Baikal lakeshore about Chinese dam building in upstream Mongolia. People of Buryat villages gathered 60days ago in Kabansk and requested from WB, Mongolian …
