Vietnamese farmers flee the Delta for city jobs as climate change, droughts and creeping saltwater take a toll.
Category: Eye Original
Mekong Eye’s original stories contributed by local journalists, partners, and grantees of the Internews’ Earth Journalism Network.
US charges Cambodian officials over monkey business
Macaque exports from Cambodia continue as ministry officials face US charges and allegations of wildlife trafficking.
Illegal gold mining threatens freshwater lake in Myanmar
Gold rush in Kachin state puts the country’s largest freshwater inland lake at risk of disappearing.
Post-pandemic wildlife trade threatens human and forest health
While hunting is a historic practice in Southeast Asia, rising commercial pressure and cheaper poaching methods are emptying forests faster than they can replenish, hurting human and forest health.
Cambodia’s snaring crisis leads to a ‘last-ditch effort’ to save wildlife
To prevent more local extinctions, an environmentally debatable trench is dug to fend off poachers and encircle wildlife.
Vietnam’s minorities lose right to farm forests
Traditional slash and burn farming lands ethnic minorities in jail as authorities try to preserve country’s forests.
Dams on the Mekong decimating tributary fisheries
Thailand’s last free-flowing Mekong River tributary is losing valuable fish species due to the mainstream dams.
Climate change forces Thai farmers off rice fields
Unpredictable weather forces rice farmers to abandon their land and head to cities to look for construction work.
Indigenous Cambodians stripped of ancestral land
Bunong people’s sacred forest becomes a rubber plantation in another land concession for the government.
Vietnam’s pig farms an environmental nightmare
While the country has ramped up its production of pork, the environment, and the people, have been paying a heavy price.