In October, 2010 the United Movement of Mongolian Rivers and Lakes sued the Government of Mongolia in the Mongolian Supreme Court for improper implementation of the 2009 Law on “Prohibiting mining operations at headwaters of rivers, protected zones of water reservoirs and forested areas” which publicly known as “the Law with long name”.
NGO […]
Engagement in Russia’s hydropower development for the Sino-Russian Friendship
A speech delivered by Three Gorges Co. representative Chen Guoqing at Baikal Economic Forum
Dear Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen：
Good afternoon. On behalf of Mr. Cao Guangjing, Chairman of China Three Gorges Corporation and Mr. Zhang Cheng, President of China Yangtze Power Co., Ltd. I would like […]
3 July 2011
to H. E Gombojav Zandanshatar
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
RE : Arrests of Leaders of Fire Nation (Gal Undesten) and United Movement of Mongolian Rivers and Lakes (UMMRL)
Dear Minister,
I am writing to you as a matter of some urgency regarding the reports we have just received concerning the recent arrests […]
Dear All,
Greetings from the United Movement of Mongolian Rivers and Lakes! We would like to inform you our brief update since May of this year.
Until last May, you all had received information about enforcement process for the new law on the prohibition of mineral exploration at headwaters of rivers, protected zones of water […]
A coalition of Mongolian NGOs appealed on 23rd April 2010 to Professor John Ruggie, the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Business and Human Rights, to use his good offices to calm the tension that has erupted in the capital, Ulaanbaatar and other parts of the country, over the decision by the Government […]
With great surprise we read “Global Anvironmental Alert” on UNEP side, that attributed falling levels of Dalai Lake to dams on tributaries, while all lakes of Dauria do so due to natural climate cycle…State-of-the-art radar altimetry is demonstrated to support this claim.We had no choice, but to address the authors of this misleading article in a […]
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 […]
On July 9, 2009, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature sent an appeal to Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev expressing its deep concern regarding the potentially disastrous environmental impacts of the Hailaer/Argun River-Dalai Lake water diversion project. IUCN reminds the leaders that the Daurian Steppe has been identified as […]
The leaders of the River Movements went on hunger strike starting from July 2 to urge Mongolian legislature to adopt a law protecting vulnerable parts of river basins from mining. If the law is enacted, about 30% of Mongolian territory, mostly river valleys and headwaters will be protected from major encroachment.
They also issued an open […]
Upon learning in May 2009 that construction was already halfway complete on a canal designed to divert a significant portion of the Hailaer-Argun River to Dalai Lake, researchers from Daursky Biosphere Reserve (part of the Dauria International Protected Area) sent an urgent call for support to the international conservation community. Scientists believe that diversion of […]