Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024

Mongabay
Oct 5, 2025, 11:33 pm74 ptsTrending
BANGKOK — The Mekong countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam lost a combined area of tree cover of nearly a million hectares in 2024, or an area almost the size of Lebanon. That’s according to Mongabay’s analysis* of satellite data published by the Global Land Analysis and Discovery…

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