Now there was more good news: DNA testing in a center for wildlife in the vicinity of the capital Phnom Penh showed that live there more pure-bred Siamese crocodiles. Until now, scientists had feared, that they are hybrids of other crocodiles. “This is really encouraging,” said Adam Starr of the environmental group Fauna & Flora International, who heads the conservation program for the crocodiles.

These results increase the chances of survival of the species) by the World Conservation Union (IUCN status critically endangered “gets. There are already plans for what to do with the discovery in the station. Starr: “Six animals may form breeding pairs, 29 have reintroduced themselves.” “This could prove a lifeline for the long-term conservation of these species,” it says in NHEK Ratanapech, the coordinator of the Cambodian program to conserve crocodiles.

The six animals were evidenced by the DNA tests are not related to each other – so that threatens no inbreeding.

Siamese crocodiles once lived in Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia. You are in 99 percent of its original range eradicated. In the past 100 years, many wetlands have been converted into rice fields. Thus, the ancestral habitat of the lizard disappeared.
Once there are 500 individuals, would be the way the status of “critically threatened to leave.” Ratanapech announced auszuwildern the boys until two years ago. This age increases the chances of survival, although the dangers are still numerous. The reptiles are fully mature in 15 years.