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Overview In the mountains of northern Lao PDR, one storm can wash out a village road. A dry spell can empty an irrigation canal. A landslide can cut a school off from the families it serves. As the climate changes, these events are becoming more frequent and more severe. The Community Livelihood Enhancement and Resilience (CLEAR) project has been helping vulnerable communities respond. Led by the Go...

In mid-May 2026, a Mekong PAD III team travelled to Yok Don National Park in Viet Nam’s Central Highlands to assess the state of its forests and wetlands, the pressures of livestock grazing, and the livelihoods of the communities who live alongside it. Yok Don is unlike anywhere else in the country. It holds Viet Nam’s only dry dipterocarp forest ecosystem – an open, seasonally dry woodland found almost nowhere els...

Farmers in Gnavet village on the edge Hin Nam No National Park in Laos have begun establishing model farms, through the planting of guava and jujube seedlings, as a first step towards diversifying their farms and sharing their knowledge with other community members.     Hin Nam No National Park is a rich and highly biodiverse karst mountain landscape that has achieved UNESCO natural heritage status.Â...