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'We Will Preserve Them': Saving Cambodia's Crocodiles

Some crocodiles are fitted with a thimble-sized transmitter to help monitor the programme (Credit: AFP)

A motorbike rider inches slowly over bumpy terrain deep in Cambodia's Virachey national park, carefully adjusting the basket strapped behind him. Inside is precious cargo -- a critically endangered Siamese crocodile.

The reptile is one of 10 being released into the park in Cambodia's northeast for the first time -- part of a years-long effort that has brought the Siamese crocodile back from the brink of extinction in the wild.

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