This atlas is a study of climate and agroclimate in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic for the period 1990–2019 based on the downscaling of long-term observation data. It has been produced as part of the “Strengthening Agro-Climatic Monitoring and Information Systems (SAMIS) to improve adaptation to climate change and food …
After sustained lobbying by non-governmental organisations, ( ngo s) the Asian Development Bank ( adb ) has admitted that the Theun-Hinboun hydropower project is having a negative impact on the livelihoods of thousands of people living in central Laos. The admission is particularly significant because, until recently, the adb was …
the first major dam to be built in Laos in the last 20 years has sparked off a series of environmental and commercial fears. The us $260 million Thuen Hinboun dam
the World Bank's (wb's) keenness to promote an electricity generation project in Laos has come in for flak by non-governmental organisations. The project, slated to sell power to Thailand, is feared to spell doom for Laos' economy. The 681 mw Nam Theun 2 dam project is located on Theun river, …
laos will build a 680- mw hydroelectric dam across the Nam Theun, tributary of the mighty Mekong river. About 450 sq km of land in the Nakai plateau - 40 per cent of the area - will be flooded and between 800-1,000 families will have to be resettled. Located some …
STLL stinging following a series of dam-related embarrassments, the World Bank (WB) has set up an 'International Advisory Group on Bank Hydropower Projects' (IAG) to determine if the proposed Nam Theun 2 dam in Laos is too politically hot to handle. The Laotian government wants to build the dam so …
even as the Laotian government held a public discussion on the merits of a proposed us $1.5-billion dam in end-January, logging trucks roared through the village of Nakai Neua at the project site. The Nakai plateau in central Laos, home to 23 poor ethnic villages spread over an area of …
The mountainous region of Lak Xao in Central Laos has emerged as a haven for timber and wildlife product smugglers. General Cheng Sayavong, a self-styled leader, commands an empire on the mountain where he carries out logging operations and runs a private zoo. His military company, Bolisat Phatkhana Khet Phoudoi, …
The controversial Nam Theun ii hydro dam project has run into trouble. The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand ( egat ) has cancelled plans to purchase electricity from the dam. The cancellation has dealt a final blow to the dam's developers, who have poured us $30 million into the project …
After months of dispute between the World Bank (wb) and the government over the funding of the controversial us $1.2 billion Nam Thuen ii dam, both parties have evolved a consensus (Down To Earth, Vol 5, No 2). Laos and the wb have agreed to revise the terms of reference …
The proposed Nam Thuen II hydroelectric dam could trigger off ecological disaster in the Nakai plateau in central Laos. Largescale logging is going on to clear the 447 sq km area for a huge reservoir for the us $1.2 billion dam. The government sees such dam projects as an easy …
A 1992 SURVEY carried out by the Vietnamese ministry of forestry and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in the Vu Quang Nature Reserve in central Vietnam,, led to the discovery of the unique creature. The animal could not be clearly identified as being either wild cattle or an …
TWO large-scale forest projects slated to begin this year, aim to focus on Laos' forest resources more extensively. The projects - the World Bank's (WB) Forest Management and Conservation Project (FOMACOP), and the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) industrial tree plantations - are being criticised for posing serious ecological and social …
THE Vu Quang forest, a sweltering, extremely wet, slime-covered rocky terrain on the mountainous border between Laos and Vietnam, is proving to be a veritable zoo of animals unknown to science. After the discovery of the Vu Quang ox (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis) last year (Down To Earth, August 31, 1993), biologists …
