The strategy would focus on vigorous range management, soil and water conservation including tree-planting, limiting over-grazing and preventing deforestation. Improving water availability would also require additional construction of surface dams during rainy seasons and deep wells.

Rehabilitation and restoration approaches can help restore ecosystem services that have been lost due to desertification.

Teck officials say the safety and stability of HVC’s tailings damn was not affected in any way and there was no environmental impacts as a result of the incident.

The governments of Ethiopia and Russia are set to expand business ties on multiple frontiers, ranging from nuclear energy development to Russians investment in mining in Ethiopia.