Irrawaddy dolphin deaths on Bangladesh’s coast worry environmentalists, authorities — Radio Free Asia

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The carcass of an Irrawaddy dolphin lies on the Kuakata beach in Bangladesh’s Patuakhali district, May 14, 2022. Credit: Dolphin Conservation Committee of Kuakata, Bangladesh.

Growing up, Nuru Majhi and his friends used to see dolphins jumping in Bangladesh’s southern coastal waters. “But now we see a lot less dolphins,” the 58-year-old fisherman from Patuakhali district told BenarNews. “The main cause of death is due to fishing nets. The number of fishermen has increased 10 times compared to 30 years

Last Irrawaddy dolphin in northeastern Cambodia dies — Radio Free Asia

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A social media photo from Cambodia's Fisheries Conservation Department shows the carcass of the Irrawaddy dolphin Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022.

A social media picture from Cambodias Fisheries Conservation Department shows the carcass of the Irrawaddy dolphin Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. Up the river and throughout the border in southern Laos, locals of the village nearby to the Mekong River freshwater dolphin habitat validated news of the death had reached the region and described conditions in

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