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06 Sep 2010 :

Promoting decision-making not tantamount to project approval, counters commission

Thanh Nien News [9/3/2010] The Mekong River Commission seems to be acting beyond or even against its brief by encouraging decision-making on a major d ..
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Save the Mekong coalition brings together non-government organizations, local people, academics, journalists, artists and ordinary people from within the Mekong countries and internationally. Save the Mekong coalition urges the Mekong governments to keep the Mekong flowing freely to save this critical source of food, income and life for present and future generations.
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The undammed Mekong River has an extraordinary aquatic biodiversity, second only to the Amazon. Building mainstream dams would push the endangered species such as the Irrawaddy Dolphin, the Mekong Giant Catfish, and countless other migratory fish species to the brink of extinction. Losing this ecological wealth would be a tragedy of global proportions.

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