PHNOM PENH, Dec 15 (Bernama) -- The Conservation International (CI), a wildlife-protection organisation, will spend US$13,000 on the security for its crocodile shelter in Cambodia in a bid to prevent poachers from harming the highly endangered reptiles, Xinhua news agency reported quoting national media as saying Monday.
"We will pay each villager US$5 per night to stay at the shelter," English-language daily newspaper the Phnom Penh Post quoted CI director in Cambodia Seng Bunra as saying.
"This is the biggest mountain crocodile shelter (our NGO) has," he said, adding that it was imperative to involve the local community in the efforts to prevent poaching as part of the conservation process.
"Mountain crocodiles are nearly extinct, and we are lucky that Cambodia still has these kinds of endangered animals," he said, while urging the government to do more to support the conservation efforts.
The CI crocodile shelter covers an area of approximately 10 square kilometers in Pursat province.
There are now only some 250 mountain crocodiles living in Cambodia, according to official figures.
"We will pay each villager US$5 per night to stay at the shelter," English-language daily newspaper the Phnom Penh Post quoted CI director in Cambodia Seng Bunra as saying.
"This is the biggest mountain crocodile shelter (our NGO) has," he said, adding that it was imperative to involve the local community in the efforts to prevent poaching as part of the conservation process.
"Mountain crocodiles are nearly extinct, and we are lucky that Cambodia still has these kinds of endangered animals," he said, while urging the government to do more to support the conservation efforts.
The CI crocodile shelter covers an area of approximately 10 square kilometers in Pursat province.
There are now only some 250 mountain crocodiles living in Cambodia, according to official figures.
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I pray that those 10 square kilometers land will never be sold out under the great scheme of "concession land for rural development"
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