Conservation and environmental news: Greater Mekong
09 Jun 2008
Message from the Representative about Climate Change
WWF, like many other organizations and governments, are actively seeking the best, most immediate and appropriate responses to the threat of climate change impacts, whether it is local or global or mitigation or adaptation. In this newsletter, you can read more about just some of the ways that WWF is already working on this issue globally and locally. In the Greater Mekong Programme we will soon have a dedicated climate change staff to focus on adaptation in the region.
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08 Jun 2008
Quick Chat: What do you do in your daily life to help curb climate change?
Listen to people sharing different ways to help curb climate change:
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08 Jun 2008
World environment day - better early than wet
This year, World Environment Day is scheduled on 5 June but teachers and students from WWF’s pilot Green Club Project came together in, Champassak Province, Lao PDR for an early celebration before the end of school term. » Read more
08 Jun 2008
Controlling illegal fishing on the Xe Kong River
The depletion of fish stocks due to illegal and destructive fishing has become a growing problem in southern Lao PDR. Although fish have traditionally provided an important source of income for rural people, detrimental practices are undermining one of the main sources of food security. » Read more
08 Jun 2008
US ambassador visits Eastern Plains
In March, US Ambassador Joseph A. Mussomeli, US Embassy staff and a Cambodian journalist group spent three days with WWF’s project staff in the Dry Forests, Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia. » Read more
08 Jun 2008
Tour de Mereuch: What a ride!
Olga van den Pol recounts part of the four-day trip exploring areas for eco-tourism opportunities and getting more attention for the Eastern Plain projects. » Read more
08 Jun 2008
Climate change at centre of Thailand talks
WWF maintained a strong presence at the United Nations climate discussions in Bangkok on 4 April, calling on Japan to stop proposing untenable constraints on developing countries, which threatened to undermine the trust and cooperation needed to move forward and upping standards for industrialized nations. » Read more
08 Jun 2008
Biodiversity defensing against climate change
Climate change is happening, and we must develop ways for all life to be able to cope. WWF’s Vietnam Programme is looking at this through the development of resilient multifunctional landscapes that also work as forest corridors, assisting with species dispersal and adaptation, by changes in land-use practices. » Read more
08 Jun 2008
Reducing deforestation: Lao PDR and carbon trading
A new opportunity has developed for Lao PDR to be involved in the international carbon trading market. Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) was recently endorsed at the Conference of Parties 13th of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bali to provide incentives for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation by providing finances for the sustainable development of forests and biodiversity conservation. » Read more
08 Jun 2008
Climate-proofing development in coastal areas
Climate change is already creating major environmental, social, and economic challenges: The World Bank predicts up to 12 percent of Vietnam’s coasts could be submerged due to climate change, and threats to Thailand include flooding, coastal erosion and a prediction that Bangkok will be largely underwater by 2050.
