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Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Ministry hears sea gypsy plight
Various problems, from alleged land encroachment by authorities to dwindling livelihoods, have beset the sea gypsies on Koh Lipe.
Ancient whale skeleton found in Thailand holds clues to climate change
“Relatively large sea level changes around 6,000 years to 3,000 years ago in the Gulf of Thailand, where the shoreline was up to tens of kilometres inland of the present coast”.
MRC charts new course as Ministerial Council reaches major conclusions
Commission to beef up its efforts to balance environmental protection and economic development in the Mekong Basin.
Mekong ministers approve navigation and environment plans
As for the new regional environmental management strategy, the MRC described this document as “the first of its kind that covers the whole Lower Mekong Basin.”
Laos rebuilds collapsed dam in country’s south
The Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydropower project in southern Laos’ Attapeu province has rebuilt a saddle dam at the reservoir after the previous one collapsed two years ago, causing a devastating flood.
$70M ADB loan to boost agriculture, food safety
The loans for Cambodia will be used to support initiatives to strengthen food safety and quality across the value chains for cassava, cashews, mangoes, vegetables, and native chickens, it said in a statement.
Rare clouded leopard snapped by camera trap for first time in 20 years
The camera traps had captured hog deer, Asiatic wild dogs, a Malaysian night heron, a leopard and, most significantly, a clouded leopard.
Peaceful protectors of Cambodia’s Prey Lang forest, threatened by loggers and local authorities, vow to fight on
International award goes to volunteer forest rangers in mainland Southeast Asia’s last lowland rainforest