
Before she helped to release a 181-kilogramme giant stingray back into the Mekong River in May, Chea Seila had only seen parts of the pancaked-shape fish before -- sliced and being sold at local markets in Cambodia.
"Wow, it was so big," exclaimed Chea Seila, a conservationist who works as project coordinator with the Wonders of the Mekong project, recounting the May 5 release during a webinar run by the US-based Stimson Center later that month.