SLOW DOWN DURING SELENGA
In the capital of Buryatia are going to fundamentally solve the problem with the creation of a specially equipped room for bathing Ulan udentsev and visitors alike.
As it turned out, based on the current velocity of the Uda and Selenga, on their shores in Ulan-Ude is impossible to create a beach. Flow rate according to the standards should be no more than 0.5 meters per second. In the Selenga, the water flowing from the [...]

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the company "Coca-Cola" with the information support of the magazine "Photo & Video," a contest for the best radio and TV reports, pictures and publications on the theme "Every drop of water counts! '.
The contest received publications, photographs and radio and TV reports that reveal the theme of vulnerability of aquatic ecosystems and careful attitude to the water as an essential to life on the planet [...]

"Gold Rush" in Mongolia struck on Lake Baikal
29/04/2010

Foreign mining companies are changing the landscape of Mongolia. As a result, development and mining operations at the source water protection zones of rivers and reservoirs vanish there hundreds of rivers and lakes, and Mongolia itself is gradually turning into desert. Mongolian and Russian environmentalists rallied to the defense of the main tributary of Lake Baikal - the transboundary rivers Selenga and [...]

Moscow hosted the first inter-agency coordination of amendments to the Law on the Protection of Lake
Last week at the federal level took a conciliatory meeting to discuss our officials in Moscow were discussing amendments to the Baikal, which could decide the fate of the world heritage. The discussion took place rapidly: in Moscow believe that to live and something to do with [...]

A month before the visit of August 1, Vladimir Putin's Irkutsk region, where, as you know, Prime Minister spoke about the purity of Lake Baikal, which allows to resume pulp and paper plant in Seville, 33rd session of UNESCO, Russia issued a warning: the environmental problems associated with pollution of the lake, far from being solved. Therefore, performance of the Prime Minister is not so much an attempt to convince its own citizens, as the international community in [...]

In Buryatia there were places where fish have leased to entrepreneurs

In the Baikal region are held the first competition of firms and entrepreneurs the right to sign contracts for the organization of recreational and sport fishing.

Land transferred to rental businesses are located in different parts of the coast of Lake Baikal, from the north to the Lake District Kabansk

With the entry into force of the new fishing regulations for the fishery of the Baikal basin [...]

On the shores of Lake Baikal from the mouth of the river Turk issued a diseased "gaffskoy disease" lake fish from the lake. Kotokel where there was an environmental disaster. Witnesses of the picture are members of the public ecological organization "Turk."
Fish gulls peck. Also found bird bird, beast gnawed. In addition, according to ecologists from the "Turks", the villagers reported dead goby-podkamennikah. This is the Baikal fish, so [...]

May 27, after the official publication of the "Russian newspaper" Russian Government Resolution № 435 triumph for environmentalists ended the struggle against the attempts of the company "Metropol" to get permission to develop deposits of polymetallic Kholodninsky
Financial group "Metropol" that bought a few years ago, the license to develop a number of deposits in Buryatia, for the second year of trying to sell these, as it seems to have grown up in the price of a license, and [...]

Meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission for the Protection of Lake Baikal, chaired by the Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology Yuri Trutnev was held May 27 in Moscow.
Irkutsk region at the meeting were Deputy Prime Minister Michael Kruchinin region, Minister of Natural Resources and the Director Olga Gaikova institutes of the Siberian Branch of RAS.
As Olga told Gaikova at a briefing on Friday, the meeting addressed the issue of elimination of [...]

Mongolia plans to turn back the Selenga

As the informed sources in Mongolia, launched a project to fence the water from the Selenga River. Already summed up the tender for the construction of a reversal of flow in the Gobi Desert, which was won by a Chinese company. According to the source, so almost 35% of the Selenga can not reach the lake.

In Mongolia, believe that the spread of the channel [...]