News Forum - Mekong River’s diverse fish populations face extinction threat

[Thaiger]

The Mekong River, a lifeline stretching almost 5,000 kilometres from the Tibetan Plateau to the South China Sea, is under grave threat. A recent report reveals that unsustainable development is severely endangering the river’s health and diverse fish populations. Consequently, one-fifth of the fish species in this Southeast Asian lifeline are on the brink of … …

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[cowslip]

Stories like this show that the bottom line for the various governments in SE.Asia is they neither know nor care about anything environmental. They only react after international pressure to save face.... but in the end they just don't believe in conservation.