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Title
Trial release of Siamese crocodiles in Tonle Sap Biosphere Reserve, Cambodia
Author(s)
Mahood, S.;Visal, S.;Sovannara, K.;Platt, S.G.
Published
2015
Publisher
Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter
Abstract
The Siamese crocodile (Crocodylus siamensis) is considered one of the most critically endangered crocodilians in the world (Simpson and Bezuijen 2010). During the past 50 years, wild C. siamensis populations throughout Southeast Asia have been decimated by illegal hunting for skins and meat, wanton killing, government-sponsored extermination programs, habitat loss, and over-collecting to stock commercial crocodile farms (Platt and Tri 2000; Stuart and Platt 2000; Simpson and Bezuijen 2010; Kanwatanakid-Savini et al. 2012; Bezuijen et al. 2013; Guérin 2013). Furthermore, although hundreds of thousands of C. siamensis are now held on commercial crocodile farms in Southeast Asia, the genetic integrity of this burgeoning captive population has been compromised by widespread hybridization with estuarine (C. porosus) and Cuban crocodiles (C. rhombifer) (Suvanakorn and Youngprapakorn 1987; Thorbjarnarson 2001; FitzSimmons et al. 2002; Starr et al. 2009).
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