Civil society in the region is calling on UNESCO’s World Heritage Center in Paris to take action to protect Luang Prabang and save the riverscape and natural heritage. Cambodian and Thai groups are about to sign a petition calling on Mechtild Rossler, the director of the UNESCO World Heritage Center, to set up “an urgent Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA) of the World Heritage City of Luang Prabang in accordance with the guidelines of the World Heritage Committee
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Krutee Roykaew co-founder of the Mekong conservation movement based in Chiang Khong has mobilised river communities and farmers to protest against dams upstream. He is calling on World Heritage Centre in Paris and Unesco to stop the construction of the Luang Prabang dam pic credit Tom Fawthrop
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Journalist Tom Fawthrop in 2013 inspecting the Xayaburi Dam construction in Laos while working on a new documentary Killing the Mekong Dam by Dam -a Eureka Films production credit Am Puchara
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