More than 23,000 suspects have been arrested since 2015 on suspicion of engaging in illegal logging and poaching wild animals, costing the state an estimated 100 billion baht in losses.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
‘Girls Lead’ drives social changes in rural communities
Plan International works to empower girls and young women to learn, share, create, and lead the efforts to promote social development and gender equality.
Politics of rice spring eternal in Thailand
Military regime justified its coup on uprooting the previous government’s boondoggle rice price scheme but four years later it’s not clear farmers are any better off
‘This is my land’: Cambodian villagers slam Chinese mega-project
A few families in Cambodia’s southwest lead resistance effort against large resort including casino and golf courses.
Laos Accused of Copy-Pasting Dam Impact Survey
Large sections of the Pak Lay study “are simply copied directly from the (2015) Pak Beng [report]” – which an MRC review found was inaccurate.
Timber deal undermines Myanmar’s forestry reform: EIA
NGO warns that a timber trade deal in Kayah State represents “a significant step backwards” to forestry reform and urged the authorities to revoke the agreement.