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Articles and Press Releases

A collection of articles and press about river running and river conservation in China. If you have content that you would like to see posted here, please send a suggestion to us here.

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Salween Conservation Through Exploration

Can a team of American, Chinese, and Tibetan professional river enthusiasts use a first descent to draw in depth international insight to a river threatened by the largest hydropower projects in world history?
YOU BET!!!
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New York Times Report on Nu River

December 26, 2005
Seeking a Public Voice on China's “Angry River”　
By JIM YARDLEY
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"Building Dams to Get Rich is Glorious"
World Rivers Review article Sept 06

The river flows turquoise in the winter, and brown and raging in the summer, and compared to the kind of breakneck development you see in the rest of China, the Nu River Gorge is serene. That timeless quality is something the local government... is trying to correct.
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"Southern Wind Window"
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Clark Honors College Spring 2007 newsletter

 

News

We found another Grand Canyon. Read here for more on our first descent of the Salween this September.

Think Tank on the Yangtze a huge success.

Winter trip schedule posted!

 
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