WWF: A petition jointly organised by WWF-Russia and signed by more than 8,000 people was handed in to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin this week against the construction of a hydro-electric power station in Siberia that would threaten the indigenous population as well as the local ecosystem. The construction project, in the Evenk municipal district, could drive as many as 2,000 Evenki out of their homes and deer-herding pasture lands and, according to the evaluation data, one million …