On 4 February, Vietnam celebrated the national launch of WWF’s Earth Hour 2010, the local campaign of the world’s largest awareness movement on climate change.
The forests of the Greater Mekong region represent the largest combined tiger habitat on our planet. Covering 540,000km2, or roughly the size of France, these forest habitats are priority areas for tiger conservation efforts. Yet it is estimated that as few as 350 Indochinese tigers prowl the forests of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, down from around 1,200 during the last Year of the Tiger in 1998.
The project aims to design a national framework and methodology to assess sustainable river flows and ensure a healthy river system within Vietnam. Th...