Mekong Water Dialogues
Wetlands management moving forward in the Lower Mekong Region
With the accession of Lao PDR to the Ramsar Convention in 2010, all the countries of the Lower Mekong River Basin are now Contracting Parties to the Convention. In order to assist the Lao government in their implementation of the Convention, the IUCN Mekong Water Dialogues project funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, together with additional support from the Ramsar Secretariat, organized a workshop from 21 - 25 March 2011 in Vientiane, Lao PDR. …
25 Mar 2011 | Event
Vietnam National Working Group (NWG) meeting - MWD phase II
Under the auspices of the Finnish-funded Mekong Water Dialogues (MWD), every few months IUCN organizes a meeting of the National Working Group (NWG), which is made up of eight water and wetlands specialists drawn from government, NGOs, and academia. The first NWG meeting in 2011 was held on January 27 in HCMC to discuss the state of IWRM in Vietnam and the results of the meeting of the MRC Council and Donor Consultative Group on January 26 in HCMC. Please find HERE the meeting summary. We will continue to post summaries of next NWG meetings. … | Vietnamese
23 Mar 2011 | News story
Delta 2011
This meeting, the third in a series, was sponsored by IWMI, FAO, WorldFish Center, IRRI, SEI, and MONRE’s Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology, and Environment (IMHEN). Jim Syvitski of the University of Colorado gave the keynote speech. He was the lead author of the sinking deltas paper that was published in Nature and has attracted a lot of attention. Deltas sink naturally unless they are replenished with sediment, which they are under normal conditions. The formula describing this relationship is: R = A ± E - Cn - Ca - M
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23 Mar 2011 | Article
Xayaburi Dam: waves of unpredictable destruction
Two countries in the Lower Mekong River plan to construct 12 hydropower dams. On September 22, 2010, Laos officially announced its Xayaburi hydropower project, the first of these dams. The Saigon Times discusses this issue with Mr. Nguyen Huu Thien, one of the experts who have embarked on research into the environmental impacts of the 12 dams. … | Vietnamese
17 Mar 2011 | News story
Ba Be became Vietnam’s third Ramsar Site
In September 1988, the Ramsar Convention Bureau designated Xuan Thuy as Vietnam’s first Ramsar site, and Vietnam became the first contracting party to the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, commonly known as the Ramsar Convention, in Southeast Asia. Twenty years later, only one more Ramsar site has been designated: the Bau Sau wetland in the Cat Tien National Park in September 2005. On February 2, 2011, World Wetlands Day, Ba Be National Park was recognised as Vietnam’s third Ramsar site. … | Vietnamese
16 Mar 2011 | News story
From Local Watershed Management to Integrated River Basin Management at National and Transboundary Levels
Participants of the IUCN led Mekong Water Dialogues joined the International Conference on Watershed Management in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, from 9-11 March 2011, to exchange ideas and learn from lessons of watershed management around the region and across the world. …
14 Mar 2011 | Event
Environmental trends and adaptation options in Mekong delta
In December 2010, IUCN supported two workshops in the Mekong Delta. The first workshop, organized by Can Tho University, reviewed environmental conditions and trends in the delta. The overall conclusion was that state-led efforts to “re-plump” the Mekong Delta have had significant unexpected outcomes. Indeed, it can be considered a case study in the law of unintended consequences associated with large-scale infrastructure development. … | Vietnamese
09 Mar 2011 | News story
Cambodia joins the international celebration of wetlands
Banners promoting the importance of wetlands adorned the streets in five provinces of Cambodia throughout February this year. The capital Phnom Penh and provinces of Kampong Thom, Stung Treng, Battambang, Kok Kong and Pursat celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Ramsar convention for World Wetlands Day 2011. …
28 Feb 2011 | News story
Call open for Ramsar Wetland Awards
Ramsar is launching a call for nominations for the Ramsar Wetland Awards, which will be presented at the next Ramsar COP in Romania, June 2012. … | French | Spanish
25 Feb 2011 | News story
