LIVING IRRAWADDY DOLPHIN PROJECT – MANDALAY, MYANMAR

The Irrawaddy River is home to the endangered Irrawaddy dolphin, found just north of Mandalay. What’s unique about Burma’s (Myanmar) Irrawaddy dolphins is their relationship with local fishermen. Dolphins and fishermen communicate and fish together, a practice called “cooperative fishing”–a unique phenomenon found in only two other places in the world!

Your visit helps raise awareness for dolphin protection and generates income for local fishermen to continue their practice of cooperative fishing with dolphins. The Living Irrawaddy Dolphin Project is an initiative of Living Irrawaddy Travel and works with 7 cooperative fishing communities to help them develop and market community-based ecotourism.

Travel Experience
All of our tour programs include activities that allow visitors to interact and learn from communities about cooperative fishing, dolphins, handicrafts, agriculture and their life along the Ayeyawaddy River.

Responsibility
The project strives to create positive and beneficial experiences for our hosts, guests and staff while supporting dolphin conservation and reducing negative impacts on the environment during our trips and in our daily operations.

Business Case
The Living Irrawaddy Dolphin Project's mission is to support fishing communities to protect Myanmar's critically endangered Irrawaddy Dolphins and the unique heritage of cooperative fishing by helping them to market and promote community-based tourism.

Living Irrawaddy Dolphin Project – Mandalay, Myanmar
Year of Establishment - 2017
Address - Sabel Building between 22nd & 23rd and 88th & 89th, Aung Myay Thar Zan Township, Mandalay, Myanmar
Phone Number +95 (0)9953339460
Email info@burmadolphins.com
Website https://burmadolphins.com/

Mekong Tourism Coordinating Office
c/o 3rd Floor, Department of Tourism, Ministry of Tourism and Sports, 154 Rama 1 Road
National Stadium, Wangmai, Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
Web: www.mekongtourism.org
Tel: +66 2038 5071-1
Mobile: +66 8555 44234, +66 8098 95853