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Mekong River projects

Young women using scoop nets to collect crustaceans, aquatic insects, and small fish for household consumption. Lao PDR.

Support to Food Security and Aquatic Biodiversity

Laos is a culturally diverse country globally renowned for its unique biodiversity and natural resources. The Mekong River carves a path down its leng...

Modified: Mar 2010 - Started: Jan 2005

That Luang Marsh in Lao PDR provides valuable natural resources to thousands of people.

Wastewater Treatment through Effective Wetland Restoration of That Luang Marsh

This project will examine in detail the issue of wastewater management within Vientiane Capital City and the feasibility of creating a constructed wet...

Modified: Nov 2009 - Started: Jun 2007

Wallago attu specimens from Nong Bok District. Laos.

Freshwater Activities 2008

This project will focus on activities which aim to build technical capacity and raise awareness for aquatic resources management and conservation of a...

Modified: Nov 2009 - Started: Jan 2008

Mekong River's giant catfish (Pangasianodon gigas). This fish weighed approximately 160kg and measured about 250cm in length. Populations have declined by about 90% over the past 20 years.

Giant catfish conservation in the Mekong

The Mekong giant catfish (Pangasianodon gigas) is found only in the Mekong River and is one of the largest freshwater fish species in the worl...

Modified: Sep 2009 - Started: Jan 2007

Pilot Green Club Activities in Southern Lao PDR

The aim of this project is to pilot training of teachers in rural areas on environmental education (EE) activities. The project will be conducted in a...

Modified: Sep 2009 - Started: Nov 2007

View across the Mekong river (Thailand/Laos border) from the Pha Taem cliffs. Northeastern Thailand.

Protecting wetlands in the Mekong Basin

Wetlands are an important part of Thailand’s environment. Not only are they areas of great biodiversity, but they perform all kinds of useful function...

Modified: Sep 2009 - Started: Oct 2005

Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris) in the Mekong river, Kratie province. Cambodia.

Saving the Mekong River’s dolphins

With a characteristically rounded head, no beak, and sporting a small triangular shaped dorsal fin with a rounded tip below the centre of the back, th...

Modified: Aug 2009 - Started: Jan 2005

Participatory Management and Conservation of the Xe Kong River Basin

The project goal is to cooperate with local government authorities on poverty eradication through a participatory approach to integrated river basin m...

Modified: Aug 2009 - Started: May 2004

Using Wildlife Ecotourism for Sustainable Resource Management in the Srepok Wilderness Area

This project will restore the once abundant populations of large mammals in the Srepok Wilderness Area, Northeast Cambodia. Wildlife will be restored ...

Modified: Aug 2009 - Started: Jul 2005

Young women collect filamentous algae from the river for household consumption. Lao PDR.

Community fishing on the Mekong

The Mekong flows through Laos where many communities depend on the river for water, agricultural, transportation and food. With over 1,500 fish specie...

Modified: Feb 2009 - Started: Sep 2006