The damage caused by natural disasters to the Mekong Delta region last year was estimated to be nearly VNĐ118 billion ($5.1 million).
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Low water levels caused by dam projects has triggered the death of masses of fish and heightened the risk of mass extinction of aquatic life in the entire Mekong River Basin.
An extended drought in Cambodia has caused the tributaries of Tonle Sap lake to dry up, spelling ruin for farmers and fishermen in Battambang province.
Ven Saluth said the community has come across over 100 cases of illegal logging and animal traps this year, noting that some of the equipment used were creative, in which hunters would use a type of fishing trap to catch wild animals that are coming down to the lake.
Their expected output would total up to 7,940 MW or 33% of their installed capacity (23,594 MW). This is a large scale upgrade since currently coal is just 2%.
Covering 360 square kilometers of the heavily forested Botum Sakor National Park, Dara Sakor was conceived as a tourism hub in 2008.
Piles of industrial and electronic waste dumped in protected forest in the eastern province of Sa Kaew were cleared on Wednesday, making way for the Pollution Control Department to soon move in to check whether toxic residues would endanger the health of local residents.
