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Dams and Extinction: Going, Going, Gone
In a reversal of the animated movie Madagascar, all of the world's Kihansi spray toads suddenly found themselves living in...
Meet Carl Middleton, Mekong Program Director From 2006 - 2011
From 2006 – 2011, Carl Middleton, coordinated International Rivers’ Mekong Program to protect the Mekong River from destructive dams. Carl...
Feeding Southeast Asia: Mekong River Fisheries and Regional Food Security
The Mekong River supports the world’s largest inland fishery. Its economic worth at first-sale value is at least US$2 billion...
Questions to Theun-Hinboun Power Company
International Rivers sent a letter to the Theun-Hinboun Power Company (THPC) to clarify the issues regarding the Resettlement Action Plan...
Thailand’s Commercial Banks’ Role in Financing Dams in Laos and the Case for Sustainable Banking
Thailand’s commercial banks are increasingly lending to neighboring Mekong countries, including to hydropower projects in Laos. The dams that they...
Banks Must Prove They Give a Dam
Opinion piece published in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age Given the role banks played in the global financial...
Theun-Hinboun: Expanding Failure
An assessment of the Theun-Hinboun Expansion Project’s compliance with Equator Principles and Lao law The Theun-Hinboun Expansion Project – a...
Western Banks Sell Lao Villagers Down the River
The Theun-Hinboun Expansion Project, currently under construction in Central Laos, is displacing thousands of people from their homes and land,...
Western Banks Violate Rights, Law in Lao Dam Deal
ANZ, BNP Paribas and KBC Investment in Theun-Hinboun Dam Violates Equator Principles and Lao Law The Theun-Hinboun Expansion Project –...
Communities stand up against Chinese dams on Burma's Irrawaddy
Open defiance against Chinese dams in military-ruled Burma surfaced this month as dam construction and a forced relocation process began...