Figures compiled for the first time estimate live-animal sales fell up to 65 percent this season amid export-licensing push
ABOUT three-quarters of Cambodian crocodile farms applied for licences this year to comply with new export requirements, but the number of live young crocodiles and skins exported plummeted during the recent hatching season, according to official figures compiled for the first time.
Cambodia exported just 35,000 young crocodiles to Vietnam and 2,000 crocodile skins to Thailand between May and July, down from an estimated 100,000 live exports last year, said Heng Sovannara, chief of the Crocodile Development Division at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Click to read more...
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