Laos pushes ahead with Mekong dam and risks destroying the region’s lifeblood

 The Lao government’s determination to plow ahead with construction of the controversial ...

WWF: Water quality in Mendalam River, Heart of Borneo, now has significantly improved

WWF: Agreement on finance key to success at Hyderabad biodiversity meet

The first week of negotiations at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Hyderabad ...

More than 3 million hectares of elephant, gorilla habitat get new protection

More than 3 million hectares of newly designated Ramsar sites in the Republic of Congo will provide ...

Laos’ last chance to save last 6 river dolphins

A tiny population of six river dolphins, isolated in a deep pool in the Mekong River on the border ...

Stockholm World Water Week – Exciting, exhausting…and somewhat disappointing

The last week of August, I made my annual pilgrimage to Stockholm, Sweden, to join thousands of ...

Mekong dams could rob millions of their primary protein source

Hydropower dams planned for the lower mainstem of the Mekong River could decimate fish populations ...

Water management requires global perspective, local solutions

But while the water challenge is truly global, it also demands solutions that are tailored to local ...

Lower Danube birds are rearing fewer young, WWF expedition observes

WWF’s annual trans-boundary expedition which examines bird colonies in the Lower Danube between ...

Veritable revolution for Danube wetlands

This week the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands is holding its triennial global conference in ...