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The Nujiang is the largest undammed river in China.
China resumes dam projects to dismay of environmentalists 2011
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Some people say that Nujiang people are not growing grain but brewing disasters, he said.
China resumes dam projects to dismay of environmentalists 2011
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Among the projects is a 13-dam cascade proposed for the Nujiang "Angry River" in southwest China's Yunnan province.
China resumes dam projects to dismay of environmentalists 2011
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In the Nujiang valley, tour guide Alou, an ethnic Tibetan, has led environmental treks along the river for seven years.
China resumes dam projects to dismay of environmentalists 2011
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Local jurisdictions include Diqing prefecture in the east, center and north, Nujiang prefecture in the west and south and part of Lijang county in the southeast.
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While Nujiang prefecture is composed of Gongshan, Fugong, Liuku, and Lanping counties and county towns of the same names.
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For example, there are plans (currently blocked by Premier Wen Jiabao) to erect 13 or more large hydropower dams on the Nujiang/Salween River that would restrict flows into Thailand and Myanmar.
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WWF has launched an Integrated Conservation and Development project in Baimaxueshan Nature Reserve and between 1997 and 2001 the Nature Conservancy with the Yunnan provincial government invested US$5million in ecoregional conservation in Meilixueshan, Laojunshan and the Nujiang gorge.
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Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas extends over a total area of 1,698,400 ha, encompassing the watershed areas of the Yangtse (Jinsha), Mekong (Lacang) and Salween (Nujiang) rivers.
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Monsoon forest occurs in lower reaches of Dulong and Nujiang Rivers while semi-humid evergreen broadleaved forest occurs in the lower reaches of Lancang and Jinsha River.
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