Climate change and upstream dams, most of them controlled by China, are threatening Cambodia's enormous Tonle Sap Lake and its surrounding communities, putting the nation's protein supply and the ...
KOH CHIVANG, Cambodia: As night falls over his floating village, fisherman Leng Vann puffs on a cigarette and heaves a sigh for Tonle Sap, the great inland lake that has sustained Cambodia for ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KAMPONG PHLUK, Cambodia (AP) — Em Phat, 53, ...
A ban on illegal fishing in Tonle Sap, Cambodia’s largest lake, is hitting local communities hard — even those engaged in legal fishing. “By continuing to fish, we are forced into hiding, we are ...
The Tonle Sap Authority is compiling documents which describe the rich biodiversity of the over 1-million-hectare area of the Tonle Sap Lake, with plans to publish a book. Its publication is expected ...
A boy untangles his family fishing net in the village of Akol. Credit: Luc Forsyth Luc Forsyth and Gareth Bright have set out on a journey to follow the Mekong river from sea to source. The Diplomat ...
KAMPONG PHLUK, Cambodia — Em Phat, 53, studies his eel tanks with the intensity of a man gambling with his livelihood. For millennia, fishermen like him have relied on the bounty of the Tonle Sap in ...