Time is running out and one Stanford University expert says that things could begin to look ‘bleak’ if something is not done to address the country’s rapidly looming fertility crisis.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Exploring nine Ramsar sites of Vietnam
Assessed as a country with diverse wetland ecosystems and 25 areas able to meet the criteria of wetlands of international importance under the Ramsar Convention, Vietnam ratified and became the 50th signatory to this convention in 1989. It was also the first in Southeast Asia to do so.
WCS, AFD support communities to conserve largest wetland in Savannakhet
The Xe Champhone Wetland Complex is home to an abundance of aquatic biodiversity that support the livelihoods of more than 30 communities, as well as one of the world’s last remaining populations of the critically endangered Siamese crocodile, endangered turtle species, and wetland birds.
River Terns population on the rebound along Mekong
WWF-Cambodia noted that River Terns are one of the rarest bird species in Southeast Asia. In Cambodia, their numbers have declined by 80 per cent over the past 20 years, and the nationwide population was estimated at just 54 to 62 individuals in 2018.
Tra Su cajeput forest – ‘The Green Lung’ in Mekong Delta
The Tra Su cajeput forest covers over 800 hectares in Tinh Bien District, the Mekong Delta province of An Giang, just 150km from Ho Chi Minh City.
Prayut calls for action on sea pollution
According to the MNRE, about 59%, or 6.7 million of 11.4 million tonnes of rubbish from 23 coastal provinces, were properly disposed of, while the rest was discharged into the ocean last year.
How Early Megacities Emerged From the Jungles of Cambodia
Though obvious in retrospect, it was the kind of incremental catastrophe that nobody could recognize until it was too late. That’s what makes Angkor’s abandonment so haunting. On a day-to-day timescale, people living there wouldn’t necessarily have noticed the city’s dramatic transformation.
Vietnam’s economy is among the most vulnerable in the world to climate change impacts
According to the latest Global Climate Risk Index report, published in January, Vietnam’s economy is among the most vulnerable in the world to the impacts of climate change.