European Earth Observation Portal  reports on new results of satellite-based monitoring of the hydraulic engineering structures construction activities at the Argun river have been obtained. Specialists of NGO Transparent World and “Dauria” International Protected Area, supported by ScanEx RDC, monitor the construction progress on the territory of China near the Russian border.
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The Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) of China in a general report regarding on-going activities released on Sept 11 mentions that on July 27-31  Mr. Tan Dingding, the Head of  the Center for Environmental Development of the MEP with a team visited Inner Mongolia to investigate situation on transboundary rivers. The focus of this investigation […]

Report on  peculiar climate cycles shaping Dauria ecosystems and its implications for conservation and development was presented at the Nature Conservation Congress  organized by the Society of Conservation Biology in Beijing  in middle July 2009.  Report shows how misappreciation of local climate cycles leaads to inappropriate development and subsequent ecological crisis in this region. Link to full […]

Intensive flood wave reached the point of diversion necessarily resulting in massive transfer of river water into the lake. This is the first large flood in the last 10 years, one of those that have been critical for sustaining precious floodplain wetlands of Argun - River. Diversion into the lake will cut off flood peak […]

Hulunbeier, China – Satellite images received on August 29 reveal that a highly-contested canal has been filled with water and is set to divert much of the Hailaer/Argun River into Dalai (Hulun) Lake in China’s Inner Mongolian Hulunbeier prefecture. (see image below)
International conservation NGOs, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the Ramsar Convention […]