In September 2022, a group from the Living Deltas Hub team met with officers from the Department of Agriculture of Sóc Trăng province, in the Mekong Delta. This meeting was part of our field trip during the Hub’s Annual Meeting, which was coordinated by Can Tho University. Part of the objectives of this day trip was to better understand the changes in cultivation practices that have been taking place in the Mekong delta provinces, which has been mainly dominated by different types of shrimp farming and rice cultivation.

During our field trip to Sóc Trăng during the Living Deltas Research Hub Annual Meeting, we met a team from the forest department and forest rangers (both male and female) who conduct mangrove forest surveillance of the Sóc Trăng Mangrove Forest Reserve in Vinh Chau. Located south of the Hậu River, the southernmost tributary of the Mekong River, Sóc Trăng is facing the impacts of environmental changes in the Mekong River basin.