Cambodia's giant life-giving Tonle Sap lake in peril


This photo taken on October 13, 2020 shows the Prek Toal floating village in Battambang province. - More than a million people live on or around Tonle Sap lake, the world's largest inland fishery, but as a result of climate change and dams upstream on the Mekong, water levels are falling and fish stocks are dwindling. - AFP

KOH CHIVANG, Cambodia (AFP): As night falls over his floating village, fisherman Leng Vann puffs on a cigarette and heaves a sigh for Tonle Sap, the great inland lake that has sustained Cambodia for centuries.

More than a million people live on or around the lake, the world's largest inland fishery, but water levels have plummeted and fish stocks dwindled because of climate change and dams upstream on the Mekong.

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