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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Status of crocodiles in the U Minh Thuong Nature Reserve, southern Vietnam

Bryan L. Stuart, Benjamin Hayes, Bui Huu Manh and Steven G. Platt

Pacific Conservation Biology 8(1) 62 - 65
Published: 2002

Abstract

Both species of native crocodile, Siamese Crocodile Crocodylus siamensis and Estuarine Crocodile C. porosus, are seriously threatened in the wild in Vietnam. The swamp forest of the U Minh region in southern Vietnam was recently suggested to harbor the last remaining wild Estuarine Crocodiles in the country. We investigated the status of crocodiles in the U Minh Thuong Nature Reserve by conducting field surveys and interviewing local people. Field surveys found no signs of living wild crocodiles, and interview results strongly suggested that wild crocodiles have not occurred at U Minh Thuong Nature Reserve for perhaps as long as 30 years.

https://doi.org/10.1071/PC020062

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