{"id":595,"date":"2012-01-15T07:37:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T07:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/superpod.ml.duke.edu\/read\/?p=595"},"modified":"2017-07-24T18:38:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T18:38:52","slug":"mekong-river-dolphin-workshop-in-cambodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/read\/2012\/01\/15\/mekong-river-dolphin-workshop-in-cambodia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mekong River Dolphin Workshop in Cambodia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_614\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-614\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/superpod.ml.duke.edu\/read\/files\/2012\/01\/Orcaella.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-614 \" src=\"http:\/\/superpod.ml.duke.edu\/read\/files\/2012\/01\/Orcaella-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/read\/files\/2012\/01\/Orcaella-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/read\/files\/2012\/01\/Orcaella-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/read\/files\/2012\/01\/Orcaella-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irrawaddy River Dolphin in Kampi Pool, Mekong River, Cambodia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In January, Andy joined colleagues from around the world to address the plight of Irrawaddy River dolphins (<em>Orcaella breviorstris<\/em>) in the Mekong River during a workshop in Kratie, Cambodia. \u00a0Only 85 animals remain in this critically endangered population, threatened by by-catch in gill nets and an unknown source of mortality to perinatal animals. \u00a0The workshop lead to an <a href=\"http:\/\/cambodia.panda.org\/news_cambodia\/?203105\">agreement between the Cambodian government and WWF-Cambodia<\/a> on a concrete series of management and research steps to conserve this iconic species. The species is an important source of revenue to local communities through ecotourism and has special cultural significance along the Mekong River. \u00a0This critically endangered population is also the focus of an innovative partnership between <a href=\"http:\/\/cambodia.panda.org\/news_cambodia\/?203102\">WWF\u2019s Sacred Earth program and Buddhist monks<\/a>\u00a0in Cambodia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January, Andy joined colleagues from around the world to address the plight of Irrawaddy River dolphins (Orcaella breviorstris) in the Mekong River during a workshop in Kratie, Cambodia. \u00a0Only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1406,"featured_media":598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1613,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/1613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}