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Mekong River losing its Irrawaddy dolphin population

2012-07-28 1,313 Dailymotion

Southeast Asia's Mekong River is home to one of the last populations of Irrawaddy dolphins, but they are now a critically endangered species.<br /><br />The number of dolphins has been fast dwindling in the past one decade; the population in the Mekong is probably less than 100 these days.<br /><br />The cause of the deaths has been baffling, but what is worse is that conservationists cannot agree on how to save it.<br /><br />In the second part of our series on the Mekong, Stephanie Scawen reports from Kratie in Cambodia.

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