Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Cambodia’s Land Concessions Yield Few Benefits, Sow Social and Environmental Devastation
Economic Land Concessions to attract investors result in few benefits at the cost of huge social and environmental impacts.
Turning the tide on Cambodia’s forests destruction
In pictures how timber and agribusiness companies are ravaging lands that are supposedly protected and how Indigenous people are trying to stop the destruction.
Cambodia’s sweeping new environment code languishes
Deforestation, illegal sand mining and other environmental problems are rampant in Cambodia, which has lost nearly a quarter of its tree cover since 2000.
Nature-based solutions and the Rohingya crisis
The Rohingya refugee crisis not only hurts our dignity as humans, it has also made a deep scar on Bangladesh’s efforts towards environmental conservation.