There are as few as 14 Irrawaddy dolphins in Songkhla Lake. The situation is so critical that the World Bank has become involved.
Global dolphin consultants recently met with local agencies at the World Bank workplace in Bangkok to provide you with better ways to ensure the dolphins survive, and even flourish.
The largest-ever convention of dolphin consultants included the World Bank, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and groups from India, Cambodia and Laos. Thailand’s departments of marine and coastal assets, fisheries, and rural roads laid out their motion plan to safeguard the river dolphins in Songkhla Lake.
Thon Thamrong-Nawasawat, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Fisheries at Kasetsart University is chairman of a marine endangered species working group. He mentioned the assembly had agreed that Thailand will carry out extensive analysis with a joint declaration on the protected space, patrols, fishing and awareness.
Thon has warned that a new bridge planned across Songkhla Lake will damage the dolphins. He said the number of Irrawaddy dolphins within the lake is likely to drop every year. With the way ahead for dolphins unsure, he has urged the federal government to consider the bridge’s impact earlier than beginning development.
According to Scientifically proven , the EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) of the bridge will embrace the set up of sediment curtains, a dolphin watch patrol boat, warning alerts, and underwater acoustic recorders.
Thon said the federal government should search a grant from the World Bank to protect rare aquatic animals including the dugong in Trang and Krabi, Irrawaddy dolphins in Songkhla and Phatthalung, and the Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin in Nakhon Si Thammarat and Surat Thani.
The Department of Marine and Coastal Resources will run crowdfunding campaigns, alongside a mass media tour, hiring social media influencers. The department will make a documentary on dolphins in Songkhla Lake and arrange a conservation centre. In phrases of instant operations, patrols are urgently needed.
Kasetsart University hopes to see no a couple of stranded dolphin per yr, which will stabilise the population for 15 years and postpone the danger of extinction of dolphins in Songkhla Lake by 30 years. The inhabitants has been declining over the previous 30 years, with deadly entanglement in gill nets essentially the most severe risk..