A group of young environmentalists takes their initiatives deep into the Mekong river communities

Rivers have been central to human civilization for more than a millennium, either in providing source of food or water for agriculture. This is very obvious around the world, Asia included, where an important river also situates. The Mekong river has been central to one of the first communal living sites since the first trace of human establishment in the region. The Tonle Sap Lake is the biggest in Southeast Asia.

These waters continue to play an important role in providing fertile soil and abundant water for hundreds of thousands of acres of agricultural land and serve as habitat for tenth of thousands of fish, plants and micro-organism species.

However, with increasing human population encroaching into the natural habitat and ecosystem that sustain this important river, a group of young Cambodians is initiating a program to reconnect human and the rivers. A new project aims to disseminate knowledge on the wonders of great Mekong river basin is kicked off in the capital of Phnom Penh. The project is titled “Mekong Seagull Project”, a budding initiative inspired and led by members of the environmentally-conscious youth group called the Young Eco Ambassador: Mekong generation 1.

The project envisions to bring new light to the undiscovered stories of fishermen communities on both important water ways through the kingdom, namely the Mekong river and Tonle Sap lake.