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Episode: Successful breeding campaign helps save rare crocodile from near extinction
Description: Conservationists are marking 25 years of crocodile breeding and recovery in Cambodia, with a record release of a critically endangered species.
Once believed extinct, Siamese crocodiles were rediscovered in Cambodia in the early 2000s. Conservationists at Fauna & Flora International have worked to save them by breeding them in protected conditions and then releasing them into remote areas of forest to bolster wild populations.
International demand for crocodile skins and the boom of the crocodile farming industry has been blamed for pushing the species to extinction in Cambodia.
βTwenty-five years ago now, Fauna & Flora rediscovered a population of Siamese Crocodiles in Cambodia,β says...