Rapid Decline in Tonle Sap Raises Alarms For Key Southeast Asian Fishery
Cambodia’s Tonle Sap, a lake known as the country’s “beating heart,” faces a more rapid decline than previously estimated, according to a new study. Experts say that urgent countermeasures are needed to save Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, which has served Cambodia for millennia. Millions of Cambodians depend on the Mekong River and the Tonle Sap for fish catches that provide them with their main source of protein.
Dan Southerland
