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Destruction of ecosystems in the Baikal region, Russia

SUBJECT: “Destruction of ecosystems in the Baikal region”

SOURCE: Anonymous

DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Lead (Grade 2)

COLLECTION DATE: May 28, 2014

ACTION: Shared with another NGO

TEXT (taken from the report – sanitized – original language: Russian, Google translation)

“Russia . Transbaikalia territory, Mogocha district, village Amazar . Amazar river – the first major tributary of the Amur River after the formation of the merger Shilka and Argun , plays an important role in the Amur ecosystem. This place is the maximum concentration of fish in the Transbaikal Salmoniformes primarily Siberian taimen – a species introduced in the International Red Book and the IUCN Red Data Book of the Trans-Baikal region. On Amazar and its tributaries are 5 of 7 large settlements Mogochenskogo area, and the surrounding forests are home to traditional forest inhabitants taiga settlements and potential resource base for the development of the forest industry. It is these natural resources – the river and the forest, which depends on the life and development of the entire region, more than 10 years attracted the attention of businessmen from China. Back in 2002, Chita Region and Heilongjiang Province signed a somewhat different pulp mill project – with a different technology , other investors , and the volume of production at another site . Since then the idea of its construction covered garbage timber in China for the transition Pokrovka Loguhe, giving reason to believe that the transition is one of the main goals of the enterprise. And in 2009 , a new investor (OMITTED) to 2 billion yuan from China Development Bank . In 2011, built a sawmill and began to build housing for the plant , and on the eve of 2013 started construction of a dam on the river Amazar. In 2012 the pulp mill received the status of “priority investment projects in the forestry sector” of Industry and Trade , which will give the (OMITTED) “access to vast areas of forest lease without auction…“ (Continues)

ATTACHMENTS: Report in Russian

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