Rubber growers can boost resilience by adopting better cultivation methods, but will need more support.
Category: Mekong
China’s dams isolate Asian elephants
No elephants have crossed the Mekong in the past decade, and movement routes and gene flow of Asian elephants living on either side have been blocked by a Chinese reservoir.
Asia’s sinking cities need ‘Great Sea Walls’
Take Vietnam, Climate Central estimates that the lower third of the country will be submerged by 2050, displacing 20 million people.
River deltas are changing shape
Modelling reveals how the impacts of human development have altered the shape of river deltas like the Mekong around the world
Laos host green development meeting for Mekong countries
Representatives from Mekong countries met in Vientiane to discuss green growth strategies and draft a Green and Sustainable Agriculture Strategic Framework (GSASF)
Promoting biodiversity-friendly trade in the Mekong region
UNCTAD recently brought together representatives of governments, intergovernmental organizations, the private sector and civil society to discuss developments in BioTrade in Viet Nam, Laos and Myanmar.
Lao dam impact on dolphin migration highlighted
Officials and communities are concerned about the impact of Laos’ Don Sahong hydropower dam on the endangered Irrawaddy dolphin population in the downstream Mekong River.
Are dams killing the Mekong river?
Man-made construction activity in the form of dams is slowly choking the river and some 80 new dams are planned choking the flow of water with its life-giving nutrients.
Mekong communities struggle as China tests dam equipment
Water levels on the Mekong River, which flows through China and five other countries, have dipped sharply after China began testing equipment in one of the river’s upper dams.
China’s Mekong River dams are costing locals their livelihoods
Mekong River dams are generating big problem for locals as fluctuating water levels are destroying migratory fish patterns in places where fish are the main source of income and protein