Nature conservation

And we want to say thanks a lot to Enid Schreibman and colleagues From the Centre for Safe Energy (Berkeley, California, USA) for 23 years effective cooperation for the promotion of the safe energy strategy on the planet, based on the principles of Deep Ecology.
We remember and love you, in Russia!
We made a short video to tell us how we collaborated with the Centre for Safe Energy:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-DJSs0hHU8FYktrbVJWRmwwTzQ

it is a title of fact-sheet which was edited by Green World with support of Coalition Clean Baltic (CCB) in the end of 2013.
Luga River is only one salmon river in the Russian part of the Baltic Sea where natural reproduction of wild Atlantic salmon still occurs. The Luga River has a huge potential for more successful development of wild salmon, its potential as a salmon river is used by only 15-20%.
This fact sheet describes the situation for the salmon now in 2013 and actions needed to improve the stock.

The booklet see here

Baltic Newsletter of Green World #118

An unknown man in a black tracksuit and a black cloth mask with slits for eyes, quietly crept into an empty place, and struck a blow to Alexander in the back of his head from behind with a baseball bat. Alexander fell to the ground and for a moment lost consciousness. The assailant managed to make about 10 blows with the bat as Alexander tried to get up. At one point the victim managed to knock the bat out of the hands of the attacker with a bag of garbage was lying beside him. After receiving an unexpected response, the assailant fled, taking the bat.

An American geographer and Russian ecologist discuss current and prospective environmental hazards precipitated by large-scale infrastructure projects on Russia's southern coast of the Gulf of Finland. The region, investigated by both authors during the course of regular field research from 1999 to 2009, is one of the best environmentally preserved coastlines of the Baltic Sea with abundant potential greenfield sites, largely due to its closed-border-zone status during the Soviet period. A favorable location for trade also places the region under intense development pressure. The authors devote particular attention to two major developments, a multifunctional port complex (which inter alia serves as a major pipeline terminus and oil export port) and expansion of an existing nuclear power plant. Based on extensive personal observations and government documents, they analyze the emerging environmental threat posed by these initiatives as well as the challenging political environment that discourages public participation and local involvement in spatial planning.

In the name of the NGOs of Russia, we express our decisive protest against the provocation which has targeted the environmental NGO “Baikal Environmental Wave.” We demand an objective investigation and punishment of the provocateurs.

We, representatives of non-governmental international organization (NGO) “Coalition Clean Baltic” (CCB), appeal to the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and the Governor of Leningrad Oblast to support the proposals of Russians NGOs and initiative group of Primorsk city to relocate the shipyard from the woodland park in Primorsk, which is part of a green area with significant nature conservation and recreational values, to the industrial area of the Primorsk.

img src="/sites/default/greenfiles/imagepicker/s/shabarin/nuclear_baltic.jpg" width=100 style="float: left;" />One hundred and eighty kilometers of the South Coast of the Gulf of Finland (SCGF) between the Narva River (Russia-EU border) and St. Petersburg connect unique natural complexes. It has three nature-protected territories, reserves Kotelsky, Kurgalsky Peninsula and Lebiazhy. Two last-mentioned are wetland reserves having international status.
Indigenous population of SCGF, Russians and Ingermanland people (Finno-Ugric tribes Izhora and Vod’) lived in balance with nature, their traditional activities were fishing and agriculture.