Zeb Hogan, University of Nevada, RenoA floating village in the Tonle Sap River, which drains into the Mekong River at Phnom Penh. The arrow trap, one of many indigenous fishing methods that developed over the centuries, shifts seasonally depending on water levels and the related behavior of fish.
Zeb Hogan, University of Nevada, RenoA Mekong River denizen swimming with an endangered giant catfish.
By RACHEL NUWER
Read original article at The New York Times
December 14, 2011,
As The Times reported last week, environment ministers from Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Laos have decided to await the results of further studies before making a decision on whether to proceed with construction of a dam in the Mekong River. Conservationists argue that damming the river, a vital and biologically diverse lifeline for people in all four countries, would be irresponsible. (Check out our slide show to get a sense of the river’s centrality to people in the basin.)
What comes next, however, is unclear. The government of Laos, where the dam would be built, is not satisfied with the decision, according to Viraphonh Viravong, the deputy minister of the Laotian Ministry of Energy and Mines. “It would be very sad and not very fair to Laos not to develop the Xayaburi project since this is a very rare opportunity for Laos to attract foreign investment,” he wrote in an e-mail to The Times. “We would not be very proud of ourselves to continue begging for development assistance.” Read the rest of the article at The New York Times.
1 comment:
One of the ways to save Tonle Sap lake, Is to make appropriate PLAN
to move all villages installed in the lake to the apprpriate inland.
WE cannot accept that those lake villagers and their off-springs are born and live on the lake, defecate and disspose everything in the lake, drink lake water and die in the lake.
Enough is enough.But we must handle gently and firmly this matter.
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