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On November 7, 2012, the government of Lao PDR held an official groundbreaking ceremony for the Xayaburi dam, the first mainstream dam on the Lower Mekong River. The Xayaburi dam, the first of eleven dams planned for the mainstream of the lower Mekong River, will likely reduce ecosystem service values and undercut livelihoods of people…
Cartographic Diligence
Posted by Juan Valdes on October 23, 2012 One of the greatest advantages of living in the digital age is that geopolitical events, regardless of what remote corner of the planet they occur, are posted on the web within minutes if not hours after they happen. Sometimes pivotal events occur in little-known places (to most Americans) such as Abbottabad, Pakistan—the site of the…
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Many of the biggest names in conservation are set to meet September 6-15 on picturesque Jeju Island off South Korea for the 2012 IUCN World Conservation Congress. To kick off that event IUCN is launching a new report this week called The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Biodiversity in Indo-Burma. The IUCN report is the first ever…
“A country once know as ……”
Posted by Juan Valdes on December 2, 2011 Over the past several days the media has been reporting on U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s trip to Myanmar. Some have prefaced their reports using the following verbiage: “Myanmar, a country once know as Burma ……” In 1989 the largest nation on the Southeast Asian mainland changed its name from Burma to Myanmar―a…
