8 Rare Baby Crocodiles Found in Cambodia
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A wildlife sanctuary in Cambodia has found eight hatchlings of one of the rarest crocodile species in the world.
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This discovery shows the significance of Cambodia as a natural habitat for such species.
Conservationists have found 8 baby Siamese crocodiles earlier this month. The species is considered one of the world’s rarest crocodile species found, as reported by the Associated Press.
The 8 hatchlings have been found in a wildlife sanctuary in eastern Cambodia. The hatchlings were found in a river in the Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary, according to Cambodia’s Environment Ministry and the World Wildlife Fund.
The species was previously widely distributed over south-east Asia but is currently designated as being severely endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUN). All this had vanished in the 1990s due to a combination of factors such as wilderness, habitat degradation, and cross-breeding with other crocodiles.
