There are 18 fish species in the critically endangered Red List, including the giant catfish ... Economic data from the Fisheries Department of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) shows annual ...

In the early 1990s, scientists fished the Mekong River on the ... of Nature’s) Red List,” researchers said. Then, in 2005, ...

Mekong River supports around 850 fish species The Mekong River supports around 850 fish species and the world’s most intensive inland fishery. Laos’ determination to construct the Xayaburi dam on the ...

The Mekong giant catfish is the official freshwater heavyweight champion of the world. According to the Guinness Book of Records, a nine-foot-long individual caught in northern Thailand in 2005 ...

Researchers working in the Mekong region in South-East Asia have discovered more than 230 as yet unrecorded vertebrate and plant species over the past year, a report from the World Wide Fund for ...

Cantor’s Giant softshell turtle, thought to be extinct in Cambodia since 2003 has been rediscovered in a section of the Mekong River almost untouched by humans. The discovery was one of a raft of ...

or Sesan River. The Sesan originates in Vietnam and meets the Mekong about 30 miles downstream from the Don Sahong. It’s known to be a key migration route for dozens of fish species, including ...

Jedsada Taweekan, WWF Greater Mekong Illegal Wildlife Trade regional programme manager, noted that other species are identified through trade, particularly among orchids and aquarium fish.