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Celebrating Siamese crocodiles on film
30/05/2007
A new BBC television series aims to raise awareness and funds for the Critically Endangered Siamese crocodile. Saving Planet Earth follows nine celebrities as they film some of the world's most endangered animals.
Radio 1 DJ Edith Bowman, who joined Fauna & Flora International’s Siamese crocodile team and filmed them at work.
Watch Fauna & Flora International and Radio 1 DJ, Edith Bowman protect Siamese crocodiles in Cambodia.
Edith also recounted her experiences of visiting the crocodile project in an interview with the Independent on Sunday. Read the article.
Edith saw at first hand how staff from Fauna & Flora International’s Cambodian Crocodile Conservation Programme and members of the Por ethnic group protect the last few hundred crocodiles in the wild.
Because the threats to Siamese crocodiles are representative of the threats to the freshwater ecosystems on which Cambodians depend for their staple foods of rice and fish, the film shows the relationship between mankind’s fate and that of wildlife and wild places.
onations made through Saving Planet Earth are given to the BBC Wildlife Fund. The Fund organizes distributing the money - usually as grants over three years - to dozens of conservation charity partners. Fauna & Flora International will be applying for grant funding in 2007. The following are indications of what donations could achieve:
- £10 pays for a crocodile warden for a month.
- £100 enables large awareness signboards to be placed within a community or crocodile sanctuary.
- £1,000 allows every crocodile nest to be protected against predators (monitor lizards, pigs) or other threats (fire, flooding and people).
- £10,000 funds a survey and research team for one year.
- £20,000 establishes a new community crocodile sanctuary, designed and built in a participatory process with villagers.
- £100,000 would run the crocodile project for two years OR establish a Trust Fund to sustain the community warden scheme in perpetuity OR establish a tagging system in nearby crocodile ranches to make it harder for ranchers to launder wild-caught crocodiles.
To find out more about the series, please contact Camila Iturra at camila.iturra@fauna-flora.org or call +44 (0)1223 431954.
Donations for saving Planet Earth are now closed.
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