The project in Myanmar is all about community development and enabling people to care for trees, providing them with jobs, and making environmental restoration in a way that it’s profitable for people.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Public education could curb bushmeat demand in Laos, study finds
The enforcement of Laos’s laws controlling the wildlife trade appeared to do little to keep vendors from selling bushmeat, but fines did appear to potentially keep consumers from buying bushmeat.
Laos Dam Collapse Blamed on Substandard Construction
A report sent to the Lao government in March, but still not released to the public, reveals that “construction of the saddle dam was substandard,” a PNPC official told RFA’s Lao Service this week.
African swine fever keeps spreading in Asia, threatening food security
Vietnam and Cambodia probably do not have the technical abilities to be able to control ASF, and the virus will soon surface in Myanmar and Laos, which have weak veterinary infrastructures and surveillance systems.
Handbook on climate smart agriculture in Myanmar
This handbook is intended to serve as a main reference/resource book for the researchers, extension agents, professors/lecturers/teachers and farmers to learn and teach CSA in Myanmar.