Author: Thomson Reuters

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Unsustainable development is threatening the health and diverse fish populations of the Mekong river, with one-fifth of fish species in Southeast Asia’s main artery facing extinction, a group report said. of conservation on Monday.The Mekong, which stretches nearly 5,000 km (3,000 miles) from the Tibetan Plateau to the South China Sea, is a farming and fishing line for tens of millions of people in China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.Threats to its fish include habitat loss, conversion of wetlands for agriculture and aquaculture, unsustainable sand mining, introduction of invasive species, worsening climate change and hydropower dams…