The objectives of the symposium will be to: provide a forum to review and synthesize the current status of large rivers systems including their ecology, fisheries, environmental impact assessments, multiple uses of resources and associated socio-economic considerations; raise the political, public and scientific awareness of the importance of river systems, the living aquatic resources they support and the people that depend upon them; and contribute to better management, conservation and restoration of the living aquatic resources of large rivers.  

dates: 11-14 February 2003  
location: Phnom Penh, Cambodia  
e-mail: info@lars2.org  
www: http://www.lars2.org/