Cambodia’s biggest lake is running dry, taking forests & fish with it

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Cambodia’s biggest lake is running dry, taking forests & fish with it

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Gaining worldwide attention.what is the Cambodian government doing?
( other than the obvious, making loads of $$)
A similar story plays out around Tonle Sap, Southeast Asia’s largest lake and the center of the world’s most productive inland fishery. In many places, where native forest once grew from the lakebed, drab, dry, treeless farmland—yet to be inundated by the floodwaters that in recent years have arrived late—now stretches as far as the eye can see. Fires, often lit deliberately to clear land for agriculture, has further reduced the flooded forest.

Many conservationists now warn that Tonle Sap, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, faces an existential threat. Further deforestation and environmental degradation have the potential to inflict devastating economic damage to the nearly one million Cambodians living around the lake and the many millions more who depend on it for fish—the country’s primary source of protein.
Cambodia’s lowland forests are important ecosystems, not only providing habitat to mammals, reptiles, and birds—but also supplying marine species with crucial nutrients. These forests are being deforested at a higher rate than the rest of the country, which is a threat to wildlife and the country’s fishing-dependent economy.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/scie ... rest-fish/
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(link :https://www.thethirdpole.net/2020/04/27/mekong-dams/ )
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