The app “Prey Lang App” makes it easy for local forest patrols in Cambodia to geo-reference, document, and upload data about forest resources and illegal logging.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Cambodia Faces Potential Economic Collapse
The slated withdrawal of crucial European Union trade preferences will likely force its leader to walk back a prolonged political crackdown, observers and labor groups say.
Thai government pushes reform in agriculture sector
Plan to increase livelihoods for 1.3 million rice farmers by growing alternative crops and help offered to sugarcane growers
Myanmar: Women Breaking and Making the Rules
As established norms and power structures conspire to keep them out, women are stepping up in historic ways and numbers, holding the powerful to account.
Conflicts preventing biodiversity surveys
The government is having a difficult time conducting biodiversity surveys in conflict-torn areas of the country because of a lack of access and security concerns among Forestry Department personnel
Why Vietnam ranks best in world for living greener and better
Despite its achievements, the best-performing nation on the list still fails to meet the sustainability demands of an increasingly dire ecological outlook
Cambodia calls EU trade threat ‘extreme injustice’
The EU announced Cambodia could lose its special access to European markets over undemocratic practices.
UN climate change report launched in Vietnam
In the worst scenario, the sea level could rise up to one metre and permanently flood 40 per cent of the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta by 2100.