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	Amur Case
		River perch was first introduced as 160, 000 individuals into the Upper Amur basin from the Vitim basin in 1919.
		The main fishing grounds are the Amur river, coastal waters of the Tatarsky Gulf and the Okhotskoe Sea.
		Amur wetland complex is a place of fish shoals reproduction and the most important migratory corridor for millions of birds.
	www.american.edu /ted/amur.htm (4383 words)

	Travel East Russia - Changing Faces of the Amur River
		The Amur valley and its flood lands are the nesting area for 95 percent of the world population of Oriental White stork, 65% of red-crowned cranes and 50% of White-naped Cranes.
		To the north the Amur's principal tributaries are the Zoya, the Bureya, and the Amgun rivers, to the south its main tributaries are the Sungari and the Ussuri, which constitutes another portion of the border between Russia and China.
		For years the Amur River was the main route of communications connecting the forest of the Siberian interior, the Pacific coastland and even the remote shores of the Arctic Ocean.
	www.traveleastrussia.com /amurriver.html (923 words)

	Amur River Cultures - Arctic Studies Center
		The Amur River is the largest in Siberia (about 2700 miles), equal in size and might to Alaska's Yukon River.
		The Amur was the main route of communications connecting the forests of the Siberian interior, the Pacific coastland, and even the remote shores of the Arctic Ocean.
		The Native people who inhabited the lower Amur valley were a mixture of various of Tungus and Manchu tribes from the interior, Nivkh, and probably Ainu migrants from Sakhalin Island and the Amur estuary.
	www.mnh.si.edu /arctic/features/croads/amur.html (288 words)

	Amur - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Amur, river, east central Asia, formed by the junction of the Shilka and Argun rivers.
		The Amur River (Russian: Амур;, or Black Dragon River ; Mongolian: Хара-Мурэн, Khara-Muren or Black River ; Manchu: Sahaliyan Ula, literal meaning Black River) is one of the world’s...
		Amur Oblast (, tr.: Amurskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).
	encarta.msn.com /Amur.html (198 words)

	Amur or the Siberian tiger -- Panthera tigris altaica
		Due to the fact that the Amur River runs directly through their Russian habitat the common name of the Siberian tiger has changed to reflect their modern-day status and this subspecies is now usually referred to as the Amur tiger.
		Wild Amur tigers are thought to have experienced a 1940 all-time low of approximately 50 cats in Russia and an unknown number in China, but this could have been as high as 100 at the time.
		The Amur tiger has never been common and populations which maintain a low level for long periods of time are not as subject to genetic problems as larger populations which abruptly crash or are splintered.
	www.lairweb.org.nz /tiger/amur.html (462 words)

	Khabarovsk Krai Government site - Tourism and Recreation - The Amur river
		The Amur river flows across 6 regions of the Khabarovsk Territory: Khabarovsky, Nanaisky, Amursky, Komsomolsky, Ulchsky and Nikolaevsky.
		The biggest tributaries of the Amur river within the Khabarovsk Territory are Amgun, Anuy, Tunguska, Bureya and Ussuri.
		The valley of the Amur river in Khabarovsk Territory is characterized by a large variety of nature, presence of archeological and historical objects.
	www.adm.khv.ru /invest2.nsf/pages/common/amur_en.htm (362 words)

	The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
		The Nanais live in the Far East on the River Amur, downstream from the city of Khabarovsk, on both sides of the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, as well as on the banks of the Ussur and the Girin rivers (the Samagirs).
		Of all the settled minorities of the Lower Amur, the Nanais are supposed to represent the obviously Tungus-influenced neolithic native population.
		Unchecked pollution of the river has drastically reduced their numbers, and indeed the river itself is actually on the brink of disaster.
	www.eki.ee /books/redbook/nanais.shtml (2698 words)

	Benzene Slick on the Authorities’ Reputation \| Greenpeace Russia
		The authorities who have neglected problems of the Amur’s pollution for a long time, are not able to fully and adequately evaluate the situation and take measures to prevent the pollution of the river in future”, said Alexey Kiselev, Greenpeace Russian toxic campaigner.
		Amur is the river of the top fishery category and it needs the strictest possible standard to be applied.
		Amur River is the largest international river basin in Eurasia, possessing immense ecological values and rich natural resources, and environmental protection and sustainable use of Amur should become priority item for countries of Amur River Basin and should be the top issue on agenda for cooperation between them.
	www.greenpeace.org /russia/en/press/releases/benzene-slick-on-the-authoriti (2006 words)

	SCB Newsletter
		The Amur River, located on the border between Russia and China, is the world's largest free-flowing river.
		The goal of the Amur Program is to initiate sustainable regional development through a network of model protected territories, demonstration farms, and businesses; partnerships among all administrative levels, NGOs, and local communities; public education; sustainable development on an elementary level; and training of specialists.
		The Amur Program is also working on the watershed analysis with a goal to distribute successful approaches tested in the Park throughout the larger area that will lead to the next level of sustainable land use.
	conbio.net /Publications/Newsletter/Archives/1998-8-August/amur.cfm (1729 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Amur River (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Amur (Chinese: Heilong Jiang 黑龙江 or 黑龍江, literal meaning: "Black Dragon River") is one of the ten world's great rivers.
		The Amur proper is the 2,874 km after the junction of two rivers:
		The two sources join in Moguhe Village (洛古河村), western Mohe County (漠河县), Heilongjiang province, China, and become the Amur proper.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/am/Amur_River (152 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Amur River
		The thus created in Birobidzhan near the Amur river in 1928 by a decree of the General Executive Committee of RSFSR was formally made into a Jewish Oblast (republic) within the Russian Federation in May 1934.
		Grass carp are native to the Amur River in Asia and are vegetarian.
		The Songhua River in Northeast China is the largest tributary of the Heilong River (also known as the Amur River in), flowing 1,927 kilometres from the Changbai Mountains through the and Heilongjiang provinces.
	news.surfwax.com /geography/files/Amur_River.html (1647 words)

	The Amur River
		Amur is the sixth-longest river in the world, flowing 2,744 miles across the Far East regions of Russia, forming from a blending of the Argun and Shilka Rivers and flowing to the Tartar Strait at the Pacific Ocean.
		area in and around the Amur River is home to 95 percent of the world's Oriental white stork, as well as significant numbers of cranes and other birds.
		the same time, environmentalists are concerned that the river is being mined for agricultural purposes at the expense of wildlife habitats.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/geography/amurriver.htm (218 words)

	WWF \| Amur-Heilong \| Overview
		The Amur (or Heilong) river is at the center of a 600,000 square-mile watershed
		The 2750-mile Amur River is the longest undammed river in the Eastern Hemisphere.
		The Amur's headwaters are in Mongolia, near the birthplace of Genghis Khan.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildplaces/amur (563 words)

	Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure
		In fact, the Amur leopard is "in immediate danger of extinction" and is considered one of "world's most endangered cats" (Shoemaker, et al 2).
		Amur leopards are found in eastern Russia, near the Amur River andquot;within
		The name Amur (pronounced "ah - MUHR") refers to the region where Amur leopards are found in the wild — near the Amur River in eastern Asia.
	www.rollinghillswildlife.com /animals/l/leopardamur (1233 words)

	SEND International Christian World Missions
		He was instrumental in expanding and consolidating Russian influence in the Amur River region, in 1858 negotiating the Treaty of Aigun that set the Russian-Chinese border at the Amur River.
		In 1685 Russia surrendered the Amur River region to China, and the Manchu emperor demanded a Russian promise “never again to invade China’s frontiers.” But almost before the emperor turned his back, Russians were returning to the river valley.
		The Russians demanded that the Amur River be recognized as the border between China and Russia, but China prevailed and the border was drawn between Nerchinsk and Albazin.
	www.send.org /fer/history.htm (1365 words)

	Title: BLACK DRAGON RIVER , By: Winchester, Simon, National Geographic, 00279358, Feb2000, Vol
		The Amur I had seen through the Chinese telescope all those years ago separates an impoverished and corrupt and troubled outpost of Europe from a rich and assertive part of the ancient nation that stands at the very heart and soul of Asia.
		The Amur is a river at a pivotal point of a region that is about to be of great geopolitical interest.
		The Amur's fertile bottomland and its access to the North Pacific roused Russian settlers in the mid-1800s to colonize the northern bank, negating Chinese treaty claims.
	www.hawaii.edu /geog_mr/geog102online/06-russia/dragonriver.htm (5910 words)

	Khingansky Zapovednik
		Khingansky is situated in the extreme southeast of Amur Province where the spurs of the Maly Khingan Mountains gradually recede into the flat Arkharinskaya lowlands of the Amur River basin.
		The Amur River is the second largest in Russia, stretching 4,345 km (2,700 miles), and forms much of the eastern border between China and Russia.
		As rivers leave the mountains, they spread out onto the open plain where their currents slow and their courses begin to meander.
	www.wild-russia.org /bioregion13/khingansky/13_khingansky.htm (2175 words)

	WWF \| Amur-Heilong \| About the Region
		The Amur (or Heilong) River — the longest undammed river in the Eastern Hemisphere — lies at the heart of the region.
		Surrounding the Amur River is a watershed of over 600,000 square miles — slightly larger than the State of Alaska.
		The headwaters of this great river are born near the sacred mountain of Burkan Khaldun in northeastern Mongolia.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildplaces/amur/about.cfm (445 words)

	Amur needs UN clean-up aid – Environment – Vladivostok News
		The United Nations may allocate $7 million within a UN Environment Programme (UNEP) budget for an ecological preserve on the Amur River, Alexei Makhinov, second in charge of the Institute for Water and Ecological Problems of the Far Eastern Branch of Russia’s Academy of Sciences was cited by news reports as saying Wednesday.
		The Amur River is the world’s eighth longest river, with a length of over 4,400 kilometers.
		Public attention to ecological problems on the Amur River was greatly increased last December, when it became contaminated by a toxic slick of chemicals which reached it from the Songhua River.
	vn.vladnews.ru /issue546/Environment/Amur_needs_UN_clean-up_aid (512 words)

	WWF - Russian Province signs agreement to conserve Amur River
		Amurskaya, in Russia's far east, is the last of the six Russian provinces in the Amur river basin to officially announce its participation in a joint programme aimed at stabilizing the basin's deteriorating environmental situation.
		The Amur River, one of the world's longest rivers with a length of 4,400km, is shared by Russia, China, and Mongolia.
		WWF Russia seeks to implement an integrated approach to solve river basin issues and restore the balance of nature and people in the river basins through better governance of water resources, ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation, and environment management through information sharing, demonstration and public participation.
	www.panda.org /about_wwf/where_we_work/europe/where/russia/news/index.cfm?uNewsID=16095 (488 words)

	Amur Leopard (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Description: The Amur leopard is adapted to living in cold, snowy climates with their long legs and hair as well as living in regions with summer temperatures from 77 to 95 degrees.
		Conservation Status: The Amur leopard is listed as an endangered species by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and as an Appendix I species under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITIES).
		The Amur leopard is the most northern race with a wild population of 55 individuals.
	www.centralfloridazoo.org /animals/Amur_leopard.htm (347 words)

	Amur River - Encyclopedia.com
		The Amur proper begins at the confluence of the Shilka and Argun rivers and is 1,755 mi (2,824 km) long.
		Among its tributaries are the Zeya, Bureya, and Ussuri rivers.
		Since the 18th century, Russians have settled to the north of the river and Chinese to the south, a situation that since 1950 has provoked occasional border clashes.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1B1-355255.html (403 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| WORLD > Amur River toxic slick no danger to marine life, Russian experts say (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The authorities had decided there was no danger to people, and mobile labs monitoring the river would be relocated down river to Amursk, the next large city the slick would pass.
		Much of the benzene that originally entered the river is long since thought by experts to have evaporated.
		The slick is due to reach the next major town on the river, Komsomolsk-na-Amure, and its 400,000 inhabitants on January 5 and then flow into the Okhotsk sea.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2005/dec/26/yehey/world/20051226wor4.html (371 words)

	Origin of Amur River Valley Civilization Explored
		A Sino-Russian archaeological team announced on earlier this month that the original settlements on both banks of the Heilongjiang (Amur) River were very similar and the region may have been an important route for humans migrating from Asia to America.
		The Heilongjiang River is located in the central area of northeast Asia, close to Bering Strait which connects Asia to North America.
		Archaeologists say that the new finds along the Heilongjiang River also back the theory as the stoneware proves that the time when human activities began was quite close to the time the land link emerged.
	www.china.org.cn /english/34288.htm (504 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log - The Top Ten Rivers of the World
		It has three major rivers contributing to it, the Blue Nile with its source in Ethiopia near Lake Tana, north of Khartoum, the White Nile and Blue Nile are joined by the Atbara, which also was born in the highlands of Ethiopia.
		The river drops a 170 million cubic meters of silt annually that assists a large plain in Jiangsu Province, where the major crop Rice, is the staple food of the Chinese.
		The Lena River is born in the mountains west of Lake Baikal, in south eastern Siberia, and to its mouth on the Laptev Sea in the Arctic it drains some 961,000 square miles.
	www.ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/TheTopTenRiversoftheWorld.html (2051 words)

	The Amur River: The Land, Peoples & Culture
		Amur River and its ecology including fish such as sturgeon, map of the lower Amur from Khabarovsk, photos, and a large photogallery of the region
		Amur River, here listed as the world's 11th longest river, flows north from the west side of Lake Baikal.
		Amur Tiger or Siberian Tiger: the last viable population of this endangered big cat is in the region called Ussuriland, along a tributary of the Amur River.
	www.workingdogweb.com /Amur-River.htm (1060 words)

	The shaft of the Urup copper mine
		Amur is the area just east of Transbaikal and Khabarovsk is a large portion of Russia's Pacific coast.
		Kinlyandyak stream is a is a left tributary of the Kupuri river in the Zeya basin.
		Mereck in Amur is a greisen locality mainly known for it's large and often perfect cassiterite crystals.
	maurice.strahlen.org /amur/amur.htm (1197 words)

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