Current scale of captive breeding operations within tiger farms, particularly in Laos, are “a significant obstacle” to the protection and recovery of wild populations.
Category: Mekong
Curbing Southeast Asia’s transboundary haze: Corporate accountability the missing piece
Without making companies accountable, we’ll only become more blinded by their haze.
UN Urges Southeast Asian Countries to Get Tough on Plastic Pollution
Southeast Asia—home to more than 655 million people across 11 countries—needs to introduce region-wide policies to regulate plastic packaging says new UN report.
Rising Coastal Sea Levels Pose Threat to Cities in Vietnam and Thailand
A recent study referred to by some as a “Doomsday Report” suggests that rising sea levels could flood three times more land than previously predicted.
NGOs challenging financiers of the Xayaburi hydropower project
32 groups issue statement to five Thai banks funding the Xayaburi Dam, making five demands including they “not fund any hydropower development project in the Lower Mekong Mainstem for at least ten years.”
Stakeholders Question Farness of MRC’s Impact Assessment for Laos’ Luangprabang Dam
Many recommendations to lower the environmental impact were raised, but few were accepted during a meeting of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) last week in Vientiane.
The mighty Mekong at crisis point
Something is very wrong in the Mekong and these trends are continuing as mainland Southeast Asia now is fully transitioning, in a premature manner, into its dry season.
There are lessons for India from China on dams
The Mekong Basin illustrates, giant upstream dams contribute to river depletion and intensify parched conditions. The spate of dam building in Asian autocracies is exacerbating already-fraught water security disputes.
Include Tibetan plateau in UN discussions: Climate researchers
Over the past 50 years Tibetan Plateau temperatures have increased 1.3C, three times the global average, says a researcher, thus 82% of the ice has retreated with 66% of the glaciers are in danger of melting by 2050.