To prevent more local extinctions, an environmentally debatable trench is dug to fend off poachers and encircle wildlife.
Category: Eye Original
Mekong Eye’s original stories contributed by local journalists, partners, and grantees of the Internews’ Earth Journalism Network.
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.
Pristine bay in Phuket under threat from marina developers
Plans to turn one of Phuket’s few mangrove forests into a haven for luxury yachts and cruises causes protests.
Mekong farmers struggle as fertilizer prices rise
Rising fertilizer costs decimate poor Mekong farmers’ livelihoods despite their vital role in feeding millions.
Cambodia seeks safety net for critically endangered dolphins
Phnom Penh prepares its first submissions for UNESCO natural world heritage and global geopark status.
Vietnam loses sacred cranes after habitat change
A vulnerable bird that usually migrated to the wetlands of the Mekong Delta has become a rare visitor to the area