The Tonle Sap, Cambodia’s most important ecosystem is in crisis

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The point of no return

Cambodia’s most important ecosystem is in crisis, experts say. Millions rely on the Tonle Sap lake for food and irrigation, and its destruction would have repercussions across the whole Kingdom. What can be done?

By Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon

 

The Tonle Sap is “doomed”.

The ecosystem of the gigantic lake – whose annual flood cycle has been the pulse of Cambodia for millennia, and on which millions depend for food and irrigation – is set to spectacularly collapse, throwing into question everything from Cambodia’s food security, to its economy, to its demographics. At least, that is, if drastic measures aren’t taken – and soon.

 

Such was the prevailing sentiment at the International Symposium on Flood pulse Ecosystems, where researchers convened last week in Siem Reap for a conference whose tone alternated between frustrated and funereal.

 

LONG ANALYSIS here

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodias-most-important-ecosystem-tonle-sap-crisis-damage-past-point-no-return

 

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[tryasimight]

I read the report as far as 'Chris' from a University that doesn't exist as far as I know blamed it all on climate change.

 

Idiot.

 

You bung six or seven bloody great dams and stop the water  flow , of course shit happens......but its go bugger all due to climate change bud.