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Sub-sector working group on agro-biodiversity 2017
to support the work of the SWG-ARD in matters regarding the Lao agro-biodiversity Main Purpose:to focus on policy aspects regarding the conservation and sustainable use of ag...
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The Lower Mekong Dams Factsheet Text
The governments of Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam are planning to build eleven large hydropower dams on the Lower Mekong River. If built, these dams would destroy the riv...
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Thailand - Country Profile (Biodiversity)
Threats to biodiversity in Thailand include illegal hunting, crop and forest burning, livestock overgrazing, forest clearance/illegal logging, destructive fishing practices, dis...
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Thailand - Country Profile
Biodiversity Facts: Status and trends of biodiversity, including benefits from biodiversity and ecosystem services. The content of this biodiversity profile is still draft. Th...
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Master Plan for Integrated Biodiversity Management
The Master Plan for Integrated Biodiversity Management B.E. 2558-2564 (2015-2021) is the principal biological diversity plan of Thailand, developed in compliance with Article 6 ...
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Ecosystems in the Greater Mekong: Past trends, current status, future possibilities
The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS: Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and Yunnan and Guangxi in China) is undergoing unprecedented changes. Many of these are positiv...
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Mysterious Mekong: New Species Discoveries 2012-2013
An extraordinary 367 new species were discovered in the Greater Mekong in 2012 and 2013. Among the species newly described by scientists are 290 plants, 24 fish, 21 amphibians, ...
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Mangrove Communities and Disaster Risk Reduction: Cases in Vietnam: Cases in Vietnam
Mangrove forest belts have very important role on reducing the impacts of natural disasters in the coastal areas. However, in the last three decades, under the pressures of incr...
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Cambodian journal of natural history
This volume of the Cambodia’s peer-reviewed scientific periodical was published in 2012 by Centre for Biodiversity Conservation. This journal addresses the information on the co...
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Nagoya protocol on access to genetic resources and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from their utilization to the convention on biological diversity
Th e Convention on Biological Diversity was opened for signature on 5 June 1992 at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the Rio “Earth Summit”) and ente...
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Fishbase: List of Freshwater Fishes reported from Lao (People's Democratic Republic) (landlocked)
FishBase is a global biodiversity information system on fishes. Its initial goal to provide key facts on population dynamics for 200 major commercial species has now grown to ha...
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Wetland Priority Sites in Lao PDR - the top five priority sites
This presentation discusses Wetland Priority Sites in LAO PDR and prepared for: Climate Change Impact and Vulnerability Assessment for the Wetlands of the Lower Mekong Basin f...
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Review of the National Protected Area System of Lao PDR
This review presents the report on the National Protected Area System of Lao PDR. It provides current status of legal, policy and institutional frameworks, biodiversity signific...
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The toxic landscape: LURAS discussion paper
The draft of this discussion paper generated a mixed response. While some experts – from both the government and development community – found the analysis persuasive, one or ...
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Ecosystem-based approaches to address climate change challenges in the Greater Mekong Subregion
The brief summarises the current state of Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) knowledge and experience on ecosystem-based approaches. The brief summarises the current state of GMS kn...
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Key findings of the MRC’s strategic environmental assessment on Mekong mainstream dams
Key findings as interpreted by International Rivers of the Mekong River Commission's 2010 strategic environmental assessment (SEA) on Mekong mainstream dams are the key document...
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Biodiversity assessment of Prey Lang: Kratie, Kampong Thom, Stung Treng and Preah Vihear (2015)
Within the Supporting Forests and Biodiversity Project (SFB), Conservation International, in cooperation with the Forestry Administration (FA), conducted a biodiversity survey o...
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Vietnamese scientist’s passion contributes to marine biodiversity in Mekong delta
A brief about Vietnamese scientist Dr. Dang Thuy Binh and her research on marine biodiversity in the Mekong Delta. This brief introduces Ms Binh’s challenges as a woman pursuing...
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Asia regional workshop: Indicators relevant for indigenous peoples, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Millennium Development Goals
Proceedings of a regional workshop on Held in Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines, 7-10 November 2006. The objectives of the Workshop were: (a) to learn about global wor...