Sungai Asap, the Bakun Dam resettlement: Borneo people on the verge of extinction
Sungai Asap is where the Borneo people (Kenyah, Penan, Kayan) have been resettled to built the huge Bakun dam. Their ancestral homes and lands flooded
Hydroelectric devastation in Borneo: interview with Save Rivers
Save the Rivers
an interview about so-called clean energy in Borneo
The word "Borneo" evokes myths of lush rainforests, strange and dangerous animals and populations of fascinating costumes... all true, unt...
Aralsk: what’s left of a sea
what's left of the port of Aralsk We keep on rushing our way through the steppe of Kazakhstan. Due to the Uzbek visa denied by the drunk consul in Azerbaijan, our bicycle trip in Central Asia rec...
water and concrete: the gates of Svaneti – the Caucasus that will be lost forever
Cycling the Georgian Caucasus to reach Kaishi, the village that should be flooded by the Khudoni mega-dam project. For our third bicycle touring reportage attempt, we finally got some local contact. Thank...
The Putin’s Olympic circles
Russia. Sochi. February 2014.The Putin's Olympic games are over from a few hours and the Paralympics are starting.Rights issues had been discussed for a few months,seems that the media noticed human right...
Georgian big dams and the price of hydroelectric: history of Svan people and actual threats to their existence
Svan people, their culture, dwellings, and crafts. All of this could disappear to produce so-called "clean energy". History of Svaneti and Khudoni hydropower plant.
Kyrgyzstan: Fergana valley, between radioactivity and territorial conflicts
Uranium mining in Kyrgyzstan, and radioactive waste at the border with the valley of Fergana. A serious issue for the geopolitical stability of the region
Brief point about nomads in Kazakhstan
Before going to cycle Kazakhstan, we asked ourselves: are there still Kazakh nomad out there? Or Soviet Union wiped them all out?
Farewell Aral Sea
Aral Lake (or Aral Sea) used to be the 4th largest lake in the world for surface (68,000km2). Now is almost a pond. What left it like it's now?