75 to 100 of these Irrawaddy Dolphins left in the Mekhong delta and once we’d convinced ourselves that this was not a man in a dolphin suit from the tourist office, we felt rather chuffed that we had been fortunate to have seen at least half a dozen of them. Hunted for their oil by the Khymer Rouge, and accidentally caught in fishing nets, they are in a perilous position, but this eco-tourism means that fishing is being tentatively replaced by tourists taking boats out that would otherwise be fishing.
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