The country’s conservation is a success with sightings of new tigers, but poaching and human-animal conflict could derail this
Category: Eye on Solutions
Solutions and innovative ideas from individuals, local businesses and communities setting a mission to solve environmental challenges.
Rural Cambodia drives clean energy transition
Farmers switch to solar and take advantage of abundant sunshine, but clearer policies are needed to expand use of renewables
Viet Nam’s Mekong Delta is running out of sand. What’s next?
Groundbreaking report predicts Vietnam’s Mekong Delta will lose all its sand by 2035 unless solutions are found – quickly
Laos looks to renewables as inflation hits energy prices
The country dubbed the ‘battery of Asia’ is turning to solar and other renewable energy sources to supply affordable power.
Thailand’s coastal communities tackle rising sea levels
From building bamboo seawalls to sharing disaster information via ham radio, people and local communities in Samut Songkhram have been creating solutions to combat sea level rise.
Vietnam’s desolate seabed
As coral reefs and marine life disappear, efforts to save them are underway, but is it too late?
Bid to save Thailand’s last remaining sand dune forests
Botanists, government push for one of the last tropical sand dune forests in Thailand to be UNESCO-listed.
In Vietnam, IKEA-style wind turbines are powering off-grid communities
The 1% of Vietnamese households without electricity rely on decentralized, micro renewable systems for power supply. Are such innovations sustainable?
Calls grow for Vietnam to do more on plastic waste
Social enterprise PLASTICPeople aims to become part of the solution to the mounting plastic waste in Vietnam and worldwide.
Ethnic minorities help save Vietnam’s rare medicinal plants
Indigenous Red Yao people in Vietnam share their knowledge of medicinal plants and find a cure for poverty.