Cambodia’s Mekong dolphin is dying despite efforts to save it

The Mekong dolphin has become an increasingly rare sight despite being a conservation priority [File: Chor Sokunthea/Reuters]

The fishing gangs visit the river at night and the rangers do nothing to stop them.

Working in large groups, the boatmen use fishing methods that have long been outlawed in this part of the mighty Mekong River like gillnetting, which uses nets that hang like a curtain in the water and snag fish by their gills, and electrofishing.