This wonderful oasis of Lao culture Mekong heritage is under threat from more dams along the endangered Mekong
The Xayaburi Dam under construction The same Thai company Ch.Karnchang plans to make another dam only 25 km from the precious world heritage site in violation of the 1995 Unesco agreement
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
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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