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The Mekong Basin is a land of diversity. Lush nature teeming with exotic plants and animals jostles with the poverty plaguing ethnic minorities in rural regions. Mick O’Shea has explored the „Mother of Waters."
The Mekong Basin is a land of natural marvels in a league of its own. It is here that fishing is more productive than anywhere else in the world and that the globe's third largest number of different plants and animals coexist, third only to the Amazon and the Nile Basin. In recent years, Vietnam's Mekong Basin has experienced an economic boom. Dubbed the country's "rice bowl," the region has seen rising standards of living and declining poverty rates. But rural regions and villages inhabited by a variety of ethnic minorities have been touched very little by the boom. The annual rice crop and fishing are often not enough to eke out a living.
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