Category: Laos
Partnerships saving the wild animals of Laos
Watching these animals emerge from their small carriers into the protected area is a wonderful indication of how partnerships between the government and NGO sectors can bring about real change.
The Loss of the Ou River
The eco-systems and the communities that depend on this Mekong tributary in Laos are facing tremendous changes because of a cascade of seven-dams being built by China’s Sinohydro Corporation.
Lives and livelihoods along the new Laos-China railway.
Ten residents from Nasang village, who lost land to the railway, took photographs and shared, in their own words, how the railway is altering their livelihoods and shaping their hopes for the future.
Chinese-Owned Factory in Laos Causes Health Scare
“We did not give them permission for this factory from the start,” the environmental official said.
Lao Dam Resettlement Village Out of Water Due to Drought
The community too faces hardships from lack of jobs, schools, health care, and land suitable for farming, while landslides also pose a threat to the village, which is built on a mountain slope that may collapse when rains return.
The Mekong is turning from brown to blue – and this is not good!
Slider imaging shows dramatic changes taking place on a section of the Mekong mainstream between 2017 and the present.
Lao Villagers Facing Eviction for Dam Leery of Government Promises
Vietnam’s state-owned PetroVietnam Power has chosen the site for the $3 billion, 1,460-megawat Luang Prabang Dam. It will flood 23 villages in whole or in part, home to 10,000 people now told to start packing.
Did Vietnam Just Doom the Mekong?
In joining the Lao effort to build the Luang Prabang hydropower project, Hanoi reverses policy, putting Vietnam’s credibility and the Mekong’s fate on the line.