Despite the warnings, plans push ahead for new barriers, to the detriment of people living in Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. The worst off are the millions of Vietnamese who live in the Mekong delta.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Vietnam ranks low in clean energy adoption
In Southeast Asia, Vietnam ranked lower than Singapore (13th), Malaysia (38th), Brunei (49th), Thailand (53rd), and the Philippines (57th).
Virus puts Cambodia oil production into question
COVID-19 has now affected the implementation of Cambodia’s first oil extraction project.
ADB Finances First Wind Power and Battery Storage Project in Thailand
The 10MW project utilizes an integrated 1.88-megawatt-hour (MWh) pilot battery energy storage system to increase the amount of renewable energy delivered to the grid.
Protesters under lockdown delay hearing on Songkhla mega project
“The short window of the public hearings violates the people’s rights to participate in maintaining and managing their natural resources sustainably.”
How sand mining puts Southeast Asia’s farmers at risk
The impacts of sand mining make Southeast Asia’s food system less resilient and make farmers in the region more vulnerable to the impacts of both climate change and shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic.
Let’s deal with water scarcity by saving it
The Mekong Delta’s drought and severe salt intrusion were predicted a long time ago. Most experts agreed that the impact of climate change and the construction of a series of dams upstream are the two biggest reasons for them.
‘They never intended to conserve it’: Outcry as loggers gut Cambodian reserve
Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, which stretches across five provinces in northern Cambodia, contains one of the region’s last remaining large areas of old growth rainforest.
Mekong region under threat, report claims
A recent report by the Regional Community Forestry Training Centre (RECOFTC) said villagers living around Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary had recently reported illegal loggers in the forest and they took action by seizing some of the perpetrators’ chainsaws.