According to a Mongolian news site, Parliament member B. Bat-Erdene said during a press-conference that a Chinese company has begun diverting the river to Shivee-Ovoo. The motion to redirect the Kherlen River to the Gobi regions was abandoned a few years ago, following protests by locals.

He also said a working group established to ensure enforcement […]

This new cooperation agreement underscores the Argun River Basin’s importance in overall Sino-Russian Strategic Cooperation, as many joint projects are located in this watershed. Many of these are old projects that have been on the drawing board for decades. It seems that border territories submitted these on-going plans to national agencies negotiating the agreement without […]

The Chinese, Russian, and Mongolian agencies managing the Dauria International Protected Area (DIPA) received a letter from the Ramsar Convention Secretariat regarding protecting Daurian wetlands. The letter reaffirms the organization’s previously stated intention to nominate DIPA as a trilateral transboundary Ramsar site. The Ramsar Secretariat supports the idea of expanding DIPA to encompass already existing […]

 The Press-Service of the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources reported on a meeting of Sino-Russian Commission on preparation of regular meetings between the heads of state took place in Beijing on October 12th. The director of Department of International Relations of Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia Vladimir Ivlev reported on preparations for the meeting […]