2010/06/12

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Conservationists Celebrate A Clutch of Endangered Crocodile Hatchlings

clipped by: celestialdancer
clippers remarks: The bad news is that their habitat has been designated for a hydropower project. So they have to find a suitable and safe habitat to release the young ones.
Clip Source: news.yahoo.com
This May 20, 2010 photo released by Fauna and Flora International shows baby Siamese crocodiles after hatching in a remote part of the Caradamon Mount

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia ? Conservationists in Cambodia are celebrating the hatching of a clutch of eggs from one of the worlds most critically endangered animals, the Siamese crocodile.


Thirteen infants crawled out of their shells over the weekend in a remote part of the Cardamom Mountains in southwestern Cambodia, following a weekslong vigil by researchers who found them in the jungle.


Experts believe as few as 250 Siamese crocodiles are left in the wild, almost all of them in Cambodia but with a few spread between Laos, Myanmar, Indonesia, Vietnam and possibly Thailand.

The operation to protect and hatch the eggs was mounted by United Kingdom-based Fauna and Flora International, for whom conservation of this once-abundant species is a key program.


"Every nest counts," program manager Adam Starr told Associated Press Television News. "To be able to find a nest is a very big success story, to be able to hatch eggs properly is an even bigger success story."



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