Many major cities in the region, including Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City have coastlines that are likely to be affected by extreme weather events.
Category: Mekong
Skywalker Gibbon, Lance Bass Bat and Toad from Middle Earth are Three of 157 New Species Discovered in GMS
The new WWF report describes three mammal, 23 fish, 14 amphibian, 26 reptile and 91 plant species discovered in the GMS.
Bride trafficking: Mekong women pressed into marriage in China
Poverty drives gambling on marriage in China, but domestic realities there frequently unravel, leaving women at risk of abuse, detention or ‘resale’ into prostitution.
Strengthening forest governance is vital for growth of Southeast Asia’s forests
Forest governance laws in the Greater Mekong Subregion and around the world are prone to systematic failures.
GMS biodiversity conservation corridors to operate from 2019
Project to strengthen cross-border cooperation and the management of the forest ecosystems among countries in the Greater Mekong Subregion.
Funding to Mekong River Commission for water cooperation
The German government and the European Union have agreed to provide $US10 million to enhance Mekong cross-border water cooperation.
Mega-dam costs outweigh benefits, global building spree should end: experts
The National Academy of Sciences in the United States published findings that further confirm that the true environmental and social costs of hydroelectric dams have been grossly underestimated.