It sought to enhance capacity among national authorities to conduct inspections of valuable timber shipments, to correctly identify species, detect illegal consignments, conduct related investigations, and appropriately dispose of confiscated illegal consignments.
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Leveraging deepening regional integration
Besides the regin’s expanding physical connectivity, the 7th GMS Summit Meeting2 included a commitment by the participants to push forward other mechanisms to help facilitate transport and trade flows across borders.
The Mekong River’s Dam Problem
Environmentalists believe huge hydropower dams, many built by China, are to blame. Bloomberg speaks with Thai activist and educator Niwat Roykaew who has made it his mission to protect the river.
Mekong Institute receives ASEAN Prize 2021
At the 38th and 39th ASEAN Summits, ASEAN announced the awarding of ASEAN Prize 2021 to Mekong Institute for its contributions in promoting ASEAN awareness and strengthening regional cooperation towards sustainable development.
Border pool dolphins down to just one
Dolphin conservation groups and government officials are expressing grave concerns over the decline in the number of dolphins present at the Chheu Teal trans-boundary pool of the Mekong River at the Laos-Cambodia border, saying that if this alarming trend is not halted, it will lead to the extinction of this important mammal.
Act now to save Mekong
The MRC urges states to come up with an “integrated river management plans to address risks from increasing hydropower development”. The warning reflects the lack of collective action to address the threat to the Mekong River that is the damming of its course.
Destination Mekong Summit discusses a sustainable tourism
Titled “Re-start, Re-form, Re-balance”, the summit looked at how the tourism sector could recover from the Coronavirus pandemic, which forced governments to shut their borders and restrict movement around their countries
Red Flag River and China’s downstream neighbors
The Red Flag River’s proposed diversion of 21 percent of water from the upper streams of three transnational rivers (Mekong, Salween, and Brahmaputra) may be seen as a controversial issue. However, the proposed impact is actually very small. In the case of the Mekong, the discharge from the river’s upper stream accounts for just 2.96 percent of the the river’s total discharge.
New reports point to dams ‘stressing’ Cambodia’s Mekong river fisheries
The Mekong River Commission — has conducted two new studies that support Kong Kim’s observations. The reports examine the effects of human and environmental incursions in the lower Mekong basin, where Cambodian fisherfolk say their catch has declined in recent years.
New reports highlight impacts of human and environmental incursions in the Lower Mekong Basin
Both reports recommend that fish stocks are protected to ensure food supplies for millions of people living in the LMB and safeguard any further erosion in household incomes.