A channel of the Mekong
River at Khone Falls
One of many channels of the Mekong River spills over Khone Falls from the Siphandone
wetlands in Laos and into Cambodia
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The rocky dissected landscape
at Khone Falls
Woody debris trapped in trees
by the Mekong annual flood
Mekong "Flooded Fores"
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Aerial roots of a fig tree
(Ficus sp)
Mekong "Flooded Forest"
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Adventitious roots exposed during
the low water season
Mekong "Flooded Forest"
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Great Cormorants
(Phalacrocorax carbo)
roosting
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Nest of a Little-ringed plover
(Charadrius dubius)
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Nest of a Little-ringed plover
(Charadrius dubius)
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Indian Thick-knee on nest
(Burhinus indicus)
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Nest of an Indian Thick-knee
(Burhinus indicus)
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Red-eared frog on an algal mat
(Hylarana erythraea)
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Paddy frog
(Fejervarya limnocharis)
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Common tree frog
(Polypedates leucomystax)
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Cricket nymph
(Schizodactylus sp)
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Tracks of Cantor's turtle
on a sandbar
(Pelochelys cantorii)
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Tracks of Cantor's turtle
on a sandbar
(Pelochelys cantorii)
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Nest & eggs of Cantor's turtle
on a sandbar
(Pelochelys cantorii)
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Removing eggs of Cantor's turtle
to a protected hatchery
(Pelochelys cantorii)
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Eggs of Cantor's turtle before
reburial at a hatchery
(Pelochelys cantorii)
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Reburying eggs of Cantor's turtle
(Pelochelys cantorii)
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Cantor's turtle hatchling
before release to the Mekong river
(Pelochelys cantorii)
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A Cantor's turtle hatchling is
released into the Mekong
(Pelochelys cantorii)
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A rheophytic tree during the
low water season
(Anogeissus rivularis)
The rheophyte Crateva magna flowering
during the Mekong's low water season
The invasive alien weed Mimosa
pigra survives the annual flood
A rheophytic tree during the
low water season
(Anogeissus rivularis)
Buring to clear forest for
farming
Forest cleared for paddi in
Ramsar site
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Small scale alluvial gold mining
usng mercury
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Bush meat - Pygmy Slow Loris
(Nycticebus pygmaeus)
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