Another poor wet season endangers Cambodia’s biggest lake and its people

Ate Hoekstra, Yon Sineat Climate change, unsustainable and illegal fishing and the proliferation of hydropower dams on rivers that feed Tonle Sap threaten the livelihoods of over one million Cambodians Sarun Nong, a fisher on Koh Krabey, a small island in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap lake, takes another look at the fishing net in front of him. It… Continue reading Another poor wet season endangers Cambodia’s biggest lake and its people

How Laos lost its tigers

Jeremy Hance  A new paper in Global Conservation and Ecology finds that the last tigers of Laos along with the Indochinese leopards vanished shortly after 2013 from Nam Et-Phou Louey National Protected Area. A new camera trap study finds that tigers vanished from Nam Et-Phou Louey National Protected Area by 2014, their last stand in Laos. Leopards… Continue reading How Laos lost its tigers