They’d trap much of the nutrient-rich sediment that now fertilizes delta fields and feeds fish throughout the Mekong system—which extends beyond the river itself. The boats that fish its ...

grypus in the Mekong River system.” The Mekong River runs for about 2,700 miles from southeastern China, along the border between Thailand and Laos, through Cambodia and Vietnam, and into the ...

The Mekong Delta, located in the southern part of Vietnam, is a particular wonder. This area has become famous for its ...

Mekong's Forgotten Fishes, a new report published by WWF and ... food security and livelihoods of tens of millions people across the region as well as the overall health of the river system, but they ...

In the new study, which quantifies the fragmentation by cumulative dam development on the Mekong river system by WWF scientists, “ecosystem connectivity” was measured by the overlap of those ecosystem ...

The river catfish may be overshadowed by its famed cousin, the Mekong giant catfish, which shares the same river system in Southeast Asia. But this less celebrated species is a remarkable fish in ...

The Mekong Dam Monitor Weekly recorded significant releases from ... droughts of recent years as a baseline for the 65 million people who rely on the river system. Fisherfolk and farmers have also ...

The proposed Funan Techo Canal is set to connect the country's coast to the Mekong River via a system of lock gates. In a new report, the World Wildlife Fund claims that dam developments ...

The Cambodia-Mekong Delta Aquifer project is a groundbreaking initiative addressing critical challenges in the Lower Mekong Basin—a vast hydrological, ecological, and socio-economic system that ...

VIENTIANE (Laotian Times): The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has entered into a grant agreement with the Mekong River Commission (MRC), pledging up to US$5 million for ...

System planning: Sambor campaign and free flowing river section ... This is especially critical in the case of the Irrawaddy dolphin subpopulation in the Mekong River. The initiative will support ...

KRATIE: Cambodian Minister of Information Neth Pheaktra on Sunday (March 9) called for concerted efforts to protect and preserve critically endangered Mekong River Irrawaddy dolphins. "We urge ...