First I told you about golf tourism, and now there is dolphin tourism! News coming out of the Vietnam News Agency is that measures are being introduced in Cambodia to protect future dolphin populations. Now before you start thinking that this is some sort of kind hearted gesture, the real reason is that there is a lot of poverty in the mountainous provinces of Crache and StungCheng where Mekong River dolphins live. In order to reduce the levels of poverty in the area and to encourage tourism, the country is protecting the dolphins which attracted 80,000 local tourists and 12,200 foreign tourists last year. The dolphin tours which take place generate $3.12m (£1.56m) for local economies. Although this seems like a good idea, I wonder if Cambodia would have done anything to protect its 100 endangered and rare dolphins in the Mekong River if money was not involved?