With concerns mounting over the threats to the 14 to 20 Irrawaddy dolphins left in Songkhla Lake, dolphin experts from international organizations recently met with local agencies at the World Bank office in Bangkok to jointly step up conservation efforts to counter the potential impacts in the future.

 

It was the largest ever meeting of dolphin experts here with participants including the World Bank, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and those from India, Cambodia and Laos while the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources, the Department of Fisheries, and the Department of Rural Roads joined a discussion on the action plan to safeguard the river dolphins.

 

Assistant Professor Thon Thamrong-Nawasawat, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Fisheries, Kasetsart University who is also chairman of marine endangered species working group under the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources,revealed that the meeting had agreed to the proposed conservation guidelines, which will greatly strengthen efforts to safeguard the river dolphins.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thailand-boosts-protection-of-dolphins-in-songkhla-lake/

 

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Would help if they reduced the amount of plastic and general <deleted> that gets discharged into lake Songkhla. It depresses me to see the frequent floating garbage bags, 'Thai swans',  heading down the klong behind the house. When the city arranges daily garbage collection it beggars belief that people still opt to toss the garbage bag in the klong.