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Travel & Taste Cambodia: The Future of Fish and Fowl on the Tonle Sap

Great Lake Tonle Sap is a massive pulse-flow wetland basin that is the beating heart of Cambodia's natural heritage. It is the largest lake in Southeast Asia, has the largest concentration of waterbirds- many threatened, and the national life support system from as long ago as the Empire of Angkor Wat. Every year the Himalayan monsoon floods the Mekong, causing the lake to swell five times in size. It all ebbs away a few months later, fueling a massive fishery, and transforming the lake floor back into a vast plain of shrub land and seasonally flooded forest. Hunger for hydroelectricity and high-intensity irrigated rice is driving the placement of up to 195 new dams in the Mekong River system.  Even with a few more big dams like those planned, "clean" energy will still the heartbeat and doom the flow of food for the poor, and the future of wildlife over this entire region of the world. Les Kaufman is co-leading a team of scientists in search of solutions for the people of Tonle Sap, particularly the poor. Come explore the spectacular wildlife of Cambodia and the challenges faced by this country as it moves into the 21st Century.

Location-themed buffet dinner and lecture or lecture only (7:30pm start). Pre-registration required for dinner by 6pm Tuesday, February 11. Online registration
available.

http://www.massaudubon.org/get-outdoors/program-catalog#results:sanctuary=11:keywords=Cambodia:progr...



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