Despite the wins in Cambodia, Goichot says the Mekong remains “in a state of stress that is pretty alarming.”
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
‘From complex to chaotic’: Myanmar coup shrinks frontline aid
Zau Lawn, a pseudonym for a 24-year-old divinity student in northern Myanmar’s Kachin State says, “I couldn’t tell [security forces] I was helping those who fled war. If the Burmese soldiers found me with humanitarian items, I am afraid that they would harm me.”
A human tragedy
In Day Bu Noh, we met Saw Tender, the Mutraw District Governor and president of the Salween Peace Park who said that it is the people who bear the brunt of the attack.
Cambodia’s Indigenous ecotourism weighed down by virus fears
Cambodia’s Indigenous groups make up less than two percent of the population and mostly live in in the hilly and forested northeast provinces such as Ratanakiri.
Urgent responses to climate change in the Mekong river are required
With rapid economic development, exponential population growth, urbanisation, industrialisation, and increased agricultural production in the region, the demand for water and river-based resources has dramatically increased, which gives rise to environmental degradation, resource scarcity, and struggles among diverse groups of resource users including local people, development agencies, conservation organisations, and private sectors, and between upstream and downstream nations.
Red-crowned cranes return to Mekong Delta
More than 30 red-crowned cranes have returned to the Phu My Biosphere Reserve in Kien Giang province and the Tram Chim National Park in Dong Thap province after a year of absence.
The poor state of press freedom is stunting social progress in Southeast Asia
None of the 11 countries in the ASEAN bloc scored above RSF’s ‘difficult situation’ designation. Singapore and Laos were also included in this designation of countries with the worst press freedom in the world.” “
WWF marks 60 years by calling for urgent action to save the Earth
WWF has been implementing and conserving nature and wildlife for more than two decades in Cambodia with the help of the government, the local communities, key actors from development and private sectors, and other partners.
‘Nature – based’ farming a winner in Delta
All of the delta’s 12 provinces and its major city, Cần Thơ, have been able to turn more unproductive rice fields into fruit tree and other crop growing areas, or for aquaculture.