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Five regional countries — including China — have agreed to establish a “Regional Network for the Conservation and Management of Freshwater Dolphins and Biodiversity” to strengthen sustainable management and protection of freshwater dolphins across the region. ...

Senior officials from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries have shared their experiences and the successful implementation of conservation and management techniques for freshwater dolphins and biodiversity at a regional workshop, while urging further cooperation. ...

The Mekong Dolphin Pleasance of Kampi village is a nature tourism destination located along the Mekong River in Kratie province. Tourists have the opportunity to witness breath-taking scenes as rare freshwater dolphins dance and swim in pairs—mother and child, sister and brother—along the surface of ...

Sitting at his outpost overlooking the Mekong River, Deab Kuy remembers an incident some years ago when fishermen threatened to attack him if they were stopped from casting their nets around the river’s sandy islets here in Sambok commune. The outpost, little more than a wooden house on ...

The Cambodian government on Friday said it will limit fishing in a zone in the Mekong River to protect critically endangered freshwater dolphins The Irrawaddy dolphin conservation area will cover a 180-kilometre-long (110 miles) stretch of river from eastern Kratie province to the border with Laos, ...