Gold rush in Kachin state puts the country’s largest freshwater inland lake at risk of disappearing.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Post-pandemic wildlife trade threatens human and forest health
While hunting is a historic practice in Southeast Asia, rising commercial pressure and cheaper poaching methods are emptying forests faster than they can replenish, hurting human and forest health.
Cambodia’s snaring crisis leads to a ‘last-ditch effort’ to save wildlife
To prevent more local extinctions, an environmentally debatable trench is dug to fend off poachers and encircle wildlife.
Vietnam’s minorities lose right to farm forests
Traditional slash and burn farming lands ethnic minorities in jail as authorities try to preserve country’s forests.
