This photo taken on February 27, 2025 shows keepers with conservation group Fauna and Flora catching a Siamese crocodile at the Siamese Crocodile Breeding Facility in Phnom Tamao zoo in Cambodia's Takeo province. A years-long effort has brought the endangered Siamese crocodile back from the brink of extinction with ten of the reptiles being released by Fauna and Flora into the wild in Cambodia's Virachey national park. - AFP
PHNOM TAMAO: 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 ten 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.
