A new documentary focusses on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake and it’s flooded forests, a unique area now under threat
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Livelihoods dry up due to pollution in Tonle Sap Lake
People leaving Cambodia’s floating villages for dry land as water pollution hits fish stocks, incomes and health
Cambodia’s Fish Catch Numbers Don’t Add Up for Fishers
BATTAMBANG, CAMBODIA — When Puth Thavy was 20, the fisherman and his siblings used to come back to their village each day with three boatloads full of fish, or about 200 kilograms. Today they can barely fill a single boat. “Our fishing is so bad, I think it has decreased more than half,” said Thavy, […]
Field notes from “Cambodia’s beating heart”
The vast Tonle Sap Lake is Southeast Asia’s largest. Now, the country is trying to stop the loss of its lifeblood: the fish that thrive in these waters.