Kham Neelakul, a local fisherman from Ban Samphong, still goes fishing in the Songkhram River with traditional gear, but his catches are getting progressively smaller.
Development projects and agrochemicals are threatening the ecology of the Songkhram River — the last free-flowing river in the Northeast and one of the country’s few remaining freshwater biodiversity hotspots, although some species are already nothing but a memory.
– A vanishing haven –
“Fish are now harder to find,” says Wichit Phonglad, a local sage in Ban Samphong, a small community by the river in Nakhon Phanom’s Sri Songkhram district. “Many fish species have completely vanished from the river, and we can no longer sustain our livelihood by fishing.”
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