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A team from the Fisheries Administration (FiA) and World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) Cambodia spotted an Irrawaddy dolphin calf at the high point of the Anlong Kampi Irawaddy dolphin conservation area in Kratie province – the first calf to be sighted there this year.
Officials from the Kratie provincial Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries have given six ethnic Vietnamese families one month to remove their floating houses from the Kampi Dolphin Conservation Area in Russey Char village of Chitr Borei district’s Thma Krae commune.
Authorities in Kratie and Stung Treng provinces have pledged to step up law enforcement activities in the Mekong River dolphin protection and conservation areas.
PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/Asia News Network): A research team from the agriculture ministry’s Fisheries Administration and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) on Oct 3 confirmed a sighting of a new Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris) calf, estimated to be two weeks old. The specimen was photographed on Oct 2.