2007

• Mekong: MRC doing the wrong checking
• Promoting tree plantations
• Damming the Sekong ­ Norconsult wipes Cambodia off the map
• No Success Like Failure - Policy Versus Reality In The Forestry Sector
• Norwegian and Chinese “aid” helps dam the Xeset Riverb

2006

• Vietnamese companies set up rubber plantations in the south
• What did Smartwood know when it issued the certificate?
• FSC certified timber is illegal
• Suez Energy International and the Houay Ho dam
• Indian and Japanese pulp giants move in
• ADB's eucalyptus plantations increase poverty

2005

• Aiding or Abetting? Internal Resettlement and
• In the cooking pot - indigenous Katu diet and livelihoods
• Did The World Bank Fudge Figures to Justify Nam Theun 2?
• World Bank finances the Nam Theun 2 dam regardless of its own policies
• Nam Theun 2, the World Bank and corruption

2004

• Ongoing problems with the Asian Development Bank's "successful" Nam Leuk dam
• US war on drugs is leading to increased poverty
• Dams and the forgotten people of the Boloven Plateau

2003

• Laos: EcoSecurities helps ADB provide carbon subsidies to the pulp industry
• Vietnamese consortium plans to build six dams
• French company pulls the plug on Nam Theun 2
• Villagers Mount Unprecedented Protest Against Dam in Laos
• Asian Development Bank to support proposed Nam Theun 2 dam
• The Nam Theun 2 Dam - WWF Thailand's position
• Secrets, lies and tree plantations
• Burma/Thailand/Laos: Colonial forestry - then and now
• Nam Theun 2 dam - Fighting corruption World Bank style

2002

• The impact of the Nam Theun 2 dam on indigenous peoples
• Villagers aware of the threat of industrial tree plantations
• IFC backs Australian gold mine
• IUCN's controversial role in the Nam Theun 2 dam

2001

• Freedom of information, industrial tree plantations and the ADB
• Planned Nam Theun 2 dam leads to increased logging
• Cutting the trees to save the forest
• Asian Development Bank subsidising deforestation in Laos

2000

• Laos stops World Bank forestry programme
• Subsidies for Swedish profits in the forestry sector
• Vanishing forests and growing corruption

1999

• Dams generate environmental and social destruction in Laos

1997

• Hydropower megaprojects against forests and people
• Dams, conservation and people

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

• Report: No success like failure: Policy versus reality in the Lao forestry sector - Watershed Vol. 12 No. 1 July 2006 – February 2007

• A note on the FSC Certification of Forests in Laos - By Benjamin D. Hodgdon

• Mekong groups call for World Bank, ADB and other donors to stop promoting tree plantations

• Statement Of Unity - Mekong Regional Conference on Tree Plantations - Cambodia, November 21 - 22, 2006

• Creating Poverty in Laos: The Asian Development Bank and Industrial Tree Plantations. A World Rainforest Movement briefing paper By Chris Lang and Bruce Shoemaker. April 2006

• The dynamics of dietary change of transitional food systems in the tropical forest areas of Southeast Asia. The contemporary and traditional food system of the Katu in the Sekong Province, Lao PDR. Jutta Krahn - Bonn University - August 2005

• Letter of Thai Organisations requesting the World Bank to postpone financing of the Nam Theun 2 dam project.
  March 2005

• Plantations are not Forests. Commercial Tree Plantations in the Mekong Region
  Watershed Vol. 9 No. 3 March - June 2004
  Published by Towards Ecological Recovery and Regional Alliance (TERRA)

• Making money from trees? Commercial tree plantations in Lao PDR

• Hydroelectric Dams and the Forgotten People of the Boloven Plateau
  by Phetsavanh Sayboualaven

• Pulping the Mekong. Compilation of articles and briefing papers written and edited by Chris Lang in 2002-2003.
  Published by: Oxfam Mekong Initiative, TERRA, World Rainforest Movement

• Deforestation in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
  by Chris Lang
  Published in Vajpeyi, D.K. "Deforestation, Environment, and Sustainable Development: A Comparative Analysis."

• The Pulp Invasion: The international pulp and paper industry in the Mekong Region

• Laos: Subsidies to a struggling plantation industry
  by Chris Lang

LINKS

MEKONG RIVER
http://mekongriver.org/

Mekong info
http://www.mekonginfo.org/

Comité de Coopération avec le Laos (CCL)
http://www.ccl-laos.org/

Oxfam Mekong Initiative
http://www.oxfammekong.org/ 

Mekong Watch
http://www.mekongwatch.org