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Saving the Siamese crocodile: Cambodia moves to protect one of the world’s last wild populations

Conservation

Indigenous communities play crucial role, as ‘genetic bank’ area of wetland offers hope for critically endangered reptile In the 1990s, conservationists in Cambodia feared the Siamese crocodile had disappeared for good. Fishing and hunting had devastated the species throughout the 20th century, leaving populations across its native south-east Asia on the…

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