Hosted on MSN10mon
China’s Yangtze River, biggest freshwater lakes Poyang and Dongting at risk as fishing, sand mining bans flouted: report
For Dongting Lake, which is in central Hunan province and second in size to Poyang, the top threat was illegal sand mining that had hollowed out the beaches, and a return of illegal tree-planting ...
China Daily6d
ADB commits $150m loan for wetland conservation in Hunan
An inauguration ceremony for the ADB/AFD loan project was held on Friday in Yuanjiang, Hunan province, marking the first ...
Hosted on MSN8mon
China: Dam breach forces almost 6,000 people to evacuate
According to state news agency Xinhua, the breach at China's second-largest freshwater lake, Dongting Lake opened up on Friday afternoon. The rupture across a 226-meter (740-foot) span pressed ...