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Bangkok Post
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HISTORICAL FACTS: Songkhram river threat - The Untold Story

Kham Neelakul, a local fisherman from Ban Samphong, still goes fishing in the Songkhram River with traditional gear, but his catches are getting progressively smaller.

Development projects and agrochemicals are threatening the ecology of the Songkhram River -- the last free-flowing river in the Northeast and one of the country's few remaining freshwater biodiversity hotspots, although some species are already nothing but a memory.

- A vanishing haven -

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