![]() ![]() “Everywhere you look there are indications that this river, which has provided for so many, for so long, is at a breaking point,” says Zeb Hogan, a fish biologist at the University of Nevada, Reno, and a National Geographic Explorer. Catches from the world’s largest inland fishery have dwindled, and the fish that are being caught are so emaciated that they can only be used to feed other fish. ![]() The water has changed to an ominous color and begun filling with globs of algae. In some places in the north, the mighty Mekong has slowed almost to a trickle. In recent months strange things have begun to happen. The rains finally came, but they didn’t last as long as usual, and the drought continued. As drought gripped the region, water levels in the Mekong dropped to their lowest in 100 years. It started when critical monsoon rains failed to arrive as usual in late May. Then, in 2019 things took a turn for the worse. Source: Mulligan and others, "GOODD, a global dataset of more than 38,000 georeferenced dams," Scientific Data, 2020 ( Dramatic photos show how sand mining threatens a way of life in Southeast Asia) Yet somehow the river has, so far, powered through, delivering an almost indescribable bounty to the more than 60 million people who depend on it for their livelihoods. The Mekong could not withstand the onslaught of dam building, overfishing, and sand mining forever, they argued. As the fate of the dolphin hangs in the balance, so does the future of the Mekong, with signs growing increasingly stronger that a river sustaining one of the richest ecosystems on Earth is being strangled on a basin-wide scale.įor years people have warned that an environmental crisis looms along the 2,700-mile-long waterway, which runs through six Asian countries. This one, astray and fading, could be an analogy for how the Mekong has lost its way. Conservationists are scrambling to come up with a plan to help the critically endangered animal before it’s too late, but time is running out.ĭolphins sometimes play metaphorical roles in Cambodian folklore. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Phnom Penh, CambodiaFor months now, a single, rare Irrawaddy river dolphin, apparently entangled in a fishing net and disoriented, has been spotted in Southeast Asia’s struggling Mekong River, far from its normal habitat in northern Cambodia. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse. ![]() The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. ![]()
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