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Lobbying Activities

In 2005 Phoenix, Tigris Foundation and ZSL spear-headed a successful international campaign against an oil terminal in pristine nature in the Amur leopard's range in SW Primorye. The next three photos show a protest manifestation that Phoenix Fund organised within a few hours after learning that a delegation of Japanese investors and representatives of the local administrations were planning a visit to the proposed oil terminal site (© Phoenix Fund). Our campaign activities included -besides protest manifestations- petition letters to president Putin and other decision-makers, a media campaign resulting in media coverage around the world, arranging involvement of international organisations such as IUCN and UNESCO, lawsuits, scientific assessments of the terminal's impact, and advising banks not to provide investments until another terminal site was selected (© Phoenix Fund). Our campaign was successful and it was decided to build the terminal port near the industrial city of Nakhodka were it will do the least damage to nature and the environment (© Phoenix Fund). Phoenix fund is monitoring large infrastructure projects and participates in public hearings about planned infrastructure projects that can negatively impact nature and the environment. The photo was made at a hearing in Nakodka about the development of the city and building of the terminal of the East Siberian - Pacific Oil Pipeline, which will become the longest oil pipeline in the world (© Phoenix Fund). Phoenix Fund organised a trip for journalists and representatives of government agencies responsible for the environment to Kozmino Bay, the proposed oil terminal site near Nakhodka. On the photo the director of Phoenix Fund, Sergei Bereznuk (left), inspects the bay where the terminal will be built (© Phoenix Fund). During the visit that Phoenix organised, the television journalist Elena Shedrina conducted an interview with the vice mayor of Nakhodka, the municipality where the oil terminal port will be built (© Phoenix Fund).