Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Illegal logging denied in Mondulkiri province
Activist Heng Sros, 24, from the Cambodian Human Rights Task Force, yesterday said that the private companies received permission to transport high quality timber to Vietnam.
Laos endorses national green growth strategy
The World Bank, the Global Green Growth Institute and other development partners provided financial and technical support in developing the strategy.
Environment ministry works to better identify timber sources
“I think the [ministry’s] response and [ministries] accusing each other shows there is no clear legal mechanism. I met with the Ministry of Interior’s secretary of state who said it was difficult to prevent [illegal logging].”
Mall or park? In crowded Bangkok, ‘last’ open space stirs debate
Civic groups say the evictions and redevelopment plans mostly target poor communities who have no formal rights over the land.
UNDP & DanChurchAid helping drought proof Cambodia
Because more than three-quarters of Cambodia’s population relies primarily on subsistence agriculture, droughts and floods threaten to tip large numbers of people into poverty.
Mekong Delta farmers profit from breeding crabs amid mangroves
The pilot breeding shows that the mangrove crabs adapted to the forest environment and have a survival rate of more than 50 percent.
“Our land is collapsing around us’: Ayeyarwady at risk from rampant sand mining
Irresponsible sand mining is destroying the livelihoods of farmers and fishers and placing environmental stress on the nation’s rice bowl.