Important conservation efforts in Cambodia have brought back the critically endangered Siamese crocodile from near-extinction. The species is one of the rarest reptiles in the world, and was feared extinct in the wild only 25 years ago.
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00:00It is a very iconic species for the country, for Cambodia.
00:27It has cultural importance for local communities, and ecologically, as a top predator, it also
00:35plays a very crucial role within its ecosystem.
00:39And so it's really important to bring this species back.
00:44Out of the moped.
00:49There he goes.
00:57We are releasing 10 crocodiles to monitor how they do after release, and that's where
01:14we are bringing in the tracking technology as well, so that we can understand how they
01:22move.
01:23You know, do they survive a year after release, and so on.
01:28And then based on that information, we can decide whether it would make sense, for example,
01:33to bring in additional crocodiles into the future.
01:53The species seems to be recovering.
02:17We've just recorded the largest breeding event in the wild this century for the species.
02:23We are producing more crocodiles in captivity than have ever been produced before for conservation.
02:31We are releasing more crocodiles than ever before.