Baikal Environmental Wave (BEW), Irkutsk, Russia

An organization devoted to the protection of the sensitive environment in the Lake Baikal region, education of the public and especially the young generation, and the promotion of the local self-government, which is more or less a Direct Democracy approach.

• BEW English site
• BEW much more extensive Russian site (encoding: Windows-1251)

• Examples of recent activities:
  • A planning-cell type conference organized for the residents of the town of Mishelevka north of Irkutsk

  • Why I am against the pipeline? - reflections on organizing the environmental impact assessment of the proposed construction of an oil pipeline too close to the unique Lake Baikal.
  • Appendices to the pipeline environmental impact hearings showing great interest of the local residents (Republic of Buryatia; south of Lake Baikal) to participate in the decision making concerning their lives, to use local referenda, etc.

    Tunka Valley and its people - pictures illustrating the beauty of the Valley defended in the previous two documents