Logging, building, farming and poaching have virtually killed off the Amur Leopard, the Reuters news agency quoted WWF officials as saying on Wednesday.
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April 19, 2007Shares in Peter Hambro Mining bounced back by more than 12 percent in late Thursday trading, after Russian government officials indicated that the gold producer’s main mining licenses were not under threat.
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December 15, 2006The British lawyer who represented Greenpeace in the battle with Shell over the disposal of the Brent Spar oil platform has been hired by Russia to prepare a case against the Anglo-Dutch oil company over problems at its development project on Sakhalin Island in the country’s Far East.
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Peter Hambro Mining said Russian authorities did not find any material ecological breach in its mining projects during their initial inspections, AFX News reported Wednesday.
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December 14, 2006The head of Russia’s environment watchdog has proposed firing his deputy, who led a recent crackdown on a vast Shell-run hydrocarbon project in Russia, a source in the federal service said Thursday, RIA Novosti agency repots.
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