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Thailand s gold panners blame Mekong dams in China, Laos as fortune dries up

news Thailand’s gold panners blame Mekong dams in China, Laos as fortune dries up Vijitra Duangdee in Loei, Thailand Hieng Chantarasee, a 70-year-old gold panner in Loei province of Thailand, a few kilometres downstream from the proposed Sanakham dam in Laos. Photo: Vijitra Duangdee Under a peeling sun, two Thai grandmothers pan for gold along the Mekong River, sifting both through its muddy shale banks and their own memories of happier times for a waterway which has been changed forever by upstream hydropower dams. By the time the Mekong reaches them in Loei, on the Thai-Laos border, the water has already been strained through a dozen dams - 11 of them in China and one in Laos.

Thailand: Saving a beach paradise from mass tourism | Environment| All topics from climate change to conservation | DW

Thailand: Saving a beach paradise from mass tourism Thai authorities want to cap the number of tourists at Maya Bay to recue its stressed marine ecosystem. The iconic cove from The Beach had to be sealed off to the public after almost all its coral was destroyed. It s easy to see why Maya Bay has captured the imaginations of travelers. Surrounded by towering limestone cliffs on an uninhabited island in Thailand s Phi Phi archipelago, the secluded cove with its white sand and turquoise water is the very picture of paradise. It s such a beautiful place. It s the closest you could get, if you were to envisage a bay closed off to everywhere in the world, said Andrew Hewett, who owns a dive center on the bigger neighboring island of Phi Phi Don.

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