Cambodia has placed tough restrictions on fishing in the vast river to try and reduce the number of endangered aquatic species killed in nets. Numbers of Irrawaddy dolphins -- which once swam ...
as he navigated his boat through mangroves to pull in nets carrying disappointingly few fish. The Mekong River typically swells in the rainy season as it converges with Cambodia's Tonle Sap River ...
This Wednesday's discovery of a newborn Irrawaddy dolphin has brought this year's total births to four. No deaths of the rare species have been reported in 2025.