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

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Saving the Siamese crocodile: Cambodia moves to protect one of the world’s last wild populations
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Indigenous communities play crucial role, as ‘genetic bank’ area of wetland offers hope for critically endangered reptileIn 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 brink of extinction.But in villages dotted among the wetlands of the remote Cardamom mountains, Indigenous Chorng communities still reported see

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