It will be opened in Magway region next month as a wildlife-based tourist destination and a wildlife conservation center.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Illegal ivory seized in raid on Luang Prabang shop
Some 73 kgs of ivory products were confiscated from a shop in Luang Prabang recently and the foreign owner detained for suspected trading in elephant ivory.
Laos doubles export of finished timber products
Wood products export increased by 107 percent in 2018 after the government banned the export of unfinished timber.
Mega First’s Laos hydropower project in final stage of completion
Don Sahong dam will have its first turbine installation in March followed by the energy test in June-July.
Kachin blast Chinese statement on dam project
“We talked about the Belt and Road and development projects. But we didn’t say we would not oppose the Myitsone project,” KSDT chairman said. “The Kachin people won’t change their minds.”
From Tibet to the ‘Nine Dragons’, Vietnam’s Mekong Delta is losing sand
A key cause is the years of upstream damming in Cambodia, Laos and China that has removed crucial sediment, local officials and experts said.
Smog serious threat to public health: experts
Authorities must take the air pollution problem in Bangkok seriously and strictly enforce mitigation measures to protect people’s health, academics said, while warning of serious financial costs to match.
New book: Asian indigenous peoples’ IPR on biodiversity endangered
Not only are they confronted with land dispossession, they’re faced with knowledge appropriation developed through the ages.
Ministry institutes new permanent secretariat to prevent forest crimes
The core task of this unit mainly focuses on rosewood because the species is rare in the country: official.
Chinese railway project in Laos leaves farmers in the lurch
The railway project, expected to be completed in 2021, has displaced more than 4,400 families from their land.