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Although many global citizens know that Lake Baikal is the planet’s largest single repository of fresh water and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, few are aware that its principal source, the Selenge River, is under siege from numerous threats.
And
these are not limited to the usual suspects—such as drought, human
migration, and unregulated mining. Instead, the river has become a
veritable hostage of global geopolitics, a victim of Mongolia’s
legitimate desire for energy independence from Russia and China’s
ravenous One Belt–One Road Initiative.
Despite
the potential harm to fragile ecosystems and nomadic herding
communities, multiple hydropower dams have been proposed on the
Selenge and its tributaries. Though these projects are nominally on
hold, they retain the support of many powerful interests.
Meanwhile,
China’s urban planners continue to tout the feasibility of other
environmentally indefensible projects, including a 1000-km pipeline
from Baikal to Gansu Province, completely spanning Mongolia from north
to south.
This
2018 expedition from the headwaters of the Selenge to Lake Baikal,
traveling for eight weeks in non-motorized boats, will collect
water-quality and fisheries data and—through text, images, and
video—draw international attention to the river's plight.
As
the expedition proceeds downstream, it will invite local politicians
and bureaucrats to meet the team and participate in the conversation.
These policymakers can join for as little as one day and select from a
range of experiences: everything from a first lesson in
catch-and-release flyfishing to a crash-course in the theory and
practice of rivers.
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