The Koh Pdao Art Group

Through tra­di­tional dance the Koh Pdao art group cre­ates drama per­form­ances that high­light envir­on­mental issues for loc­als as well as provid­ing enter­tain­ment that is unique to vis­it­ing tour­ists. Since 2008, the art group has staged 20+ per­form­ances to over 76,000 people in CRDT’s tar­get communities.

The per­form­ances have been well received in com­munit­ies. After one per­form­ance in Samphin vil­lage, four fish­er­men handed over their elec­tric fish­ing tools to the com­mune coun­cil after learn­ing about the con­sequences of illegal fishing.

Art group mem­bers are proud of their skills and under­stand the role they play as com­munity envir­on­mental edu­cat­ors. Mem­bers have a good under­stand­ing of envir­on­mental issues that affect their com­munity and have com­mit­ted to stop eat­ing wild­life and illegal fishing.

The Koh Pdao Art Group

Xayaburi Dam Halted.

The Lao gov­ern­ment has again said it won’t pro­ceed on the con­tro­ver­sial dam before gain­ing approval from the inter­na­tional com­munity, and in par­tic­u­lar the down­stream countries.

This is great news, if it remains true, for the Mekong com­munit­ies (not just human) in north-east Cam­bodia who would have their homes and live­li­hoods des­troyed by the likely con­sequences of this dam.

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