The National Marine and Coastal Resource Management Committee has approved a policy that requires developers of seawall projects to follow stricter environmental guidelines to get development permission.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Solutions sought to turn Can Tho into centre of Mekong Delta region
Participants at a recent conference analysed and assessed potential and advantages of Can Tho city as well as achievements made by the municipal authorities over the last 15 years.
Threats against Cambodian forest defenders escalate amid COVID-19
Since the beginning of the year, illegal logging within Cambodia’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary has escalated, as have efforts by the government to silence those who are monitoring and exposing this destruction.
Ecotourism collapse threatens Cambodia’s wildlife
The rangers’ equipment, food and wages are provided in entirety by the Thailand-based Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation and CTC – both dependent on tourism for their income now reduced to zero.
COVID-19 threatens endangered wildlife in Southeast Asia
Today, for many rural people across far-flung parts of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand, COVID-19 is less a crisis of public health than economic survival–creating a crisis for wildlife.
Vietnam and Mekong peers pay economic price despite low virus tolls
Promising ASEAN quartet likely to fortify and diversify after pandemic cuts growth