Establishing occupancy baseline data, situational analysis, and conservation education for Siamese Crocodile conservation in East-Kalimantan, Indonesia
The challenge The Siamese Crocodile is Critically Endangered with less than 1,000 mature individuals thought to persist in Southeast Asia. The few known remaining populations are severely fragmented and in Indonesia the species is known only from a single locality in East Kalimantan in the Mesangat-Suwi weltand, with only approvimately 30 mature individuals. Facing threats such as land-use change, electric fishing, and pollution from agricultural runoff, the population of Siamese Crocodile in East Kalimantan is on a rapid decline. A…