You Can Help: Write a Letter for this Campaign!
Please send polite letters to Russian and Chinese government officials.
Model letters in English, Russian, and Chinese are available to download below.
Express deep concern that the proposed Altai Gas Pipeline from Russia to China would bisect the Ukok Plateau, the Chuya Valley, the Golden Mountains of Altai UNESCO World Heritage Site, and a Nature Park in Russia, and the Kanas National Park in China. Pipeline construction threatens critical habitat of many endangered species, pristine rivers, permafrost wetlands, mountain wilderness, and archaeological treasures.
Urge Russia’s president to respect the rights of the Telengit people, who are recognized as a “small-numbered minority people” with legal rights, and for whom the Ukok Plateau is a sacred place for burials and religious ceremonies. Construction of the pipeline would violate their rights and threaten their livelihoods based on free-range livestock herding, hunting, and fishing.
Commend China for nominating Kanas National Park as an extension of the Altai UNESCO World Heritage Site, and remind them that UNESCO opposes pipeline construction through the World Heritage Site. Urge China not to put the pristine Kanas wilderness at risk of contamination and degradation.
Send letters to:
President Dmitry Medvedev
23, Ilyinka Street,
Moscow, 103132
RUSSIA
Fax: +7 (495) 910-2134
Send email via: http://eng.letters.kremlin.ru/
Tweet him @MedvedevRussiaE
Li Baodong, Ambassador to the United Nations
People’s Republic of China
350 East 35th Street
New York, NY 10016
Fax: 212-634-0042
E-mail: ChinaMissionUN@Gmail.com
Premier Wen Jiabao
General Office of the State Council
People's Republic of China
No.2 Fu You Street, Xicheng District
Beijing 100017 Peoples Republic of China
E-mail: cnzongli@126.com
Tips:
Postage to Russia and China from the US is 98 cents.
Model letters in English, Russian, and Chinese are available to download below.
Personal, mailed letters have highest impact!
Thank you for joining in this campaign! The Telengit people say,
“Слерге jаан быйaн болзын!”
