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How Tree-Planting Drones Can Save the forests in Myanmar
The project in Myanmar is all about community development and enabling people to care for trees, providing them with jobs, and making environmental restoration in a way that it’s profitable for people.
Public education could curb bushmeat demand in Laos, study finds
The enforcement of Laos’s laws controlling the wildlife trade appeared to do little to keep vendors from selling bushmeat, but fines did appear to potentially keep consumers from buying bushmeat.
Laos Dam Collapse Blamed on Substandard Construction
A report sent to the Lao government in March, but still not released to the public, reveals that “construction of the saddle dam was substandard,” a PNPC official told RFA’s Lao Service this week.
Food Safety, Pollution Top Vietnam’s Latest Survey of Public Concerns
Vietnamese say they will no longer accept that businesses must pollute the environment in order to make money.
African swine fever keeps spreading in Asia, threatening food security
Vietnam and Cambodia probably do not have the technical abilities to be able to control ASF, and the virus will soon surface in Myanmar and Laos, which have weak veterinary infrastructures and surveillance systems.