Why Snakes Are Disappearing From Southeast Asia’s Largest Lake | National Geographic

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Tony SAP Blake is Southeast Asia’s
largest lake one of the things that
makes the Tonle Sap special is that it
expands in the rainy season and
contracts in the dry season I’ve come
out with some fishermen to see what
so the fishermen set out a net last
night and right down here in the boat is
what they caught one thing that strikes
me immediately is that these are almost
all juvenile fish so not only fish but
also turtle shrimp snails and check this
out
aquatic snake and so this is one of the
things that the total ESOP is famous for
the Tonle Sap is home to the world’s
largest aquatic snake harvest and this
time of year the aquatic snake harvest
Peaks the waters come up and it forces
the snakes into the trees and into the
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