The Philippine crocodile (Crocodylus mindorensis) is a crocodile

Crocodile

A crocodile is any species belonging to the family Crocodylidae . The term can also be used more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia: i.e...

 found in the Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

. It is also known as the Mindoro crocodile and the Philippine freshwater crocodile. In the Philippines, it is strictly prohibited to kill a crocodile, but its status is critically endangered from exploitation and unsustainable fishing methods

Unsustainable fishing methods

Unsustainable fishing methods are ways of catching wild fish that are not considered sustainable in the long term. This could be because they threaten the fish stock itself by overfishing, or because they threaten the environment the fish need to thrive...

, such as dynamite fishing. Conservation methods are being taken by the Dutch/Filipino Mabuwaya

Mabuwaya

Mabuwaya is a contraction of the Filipino words mabuhay, "welcome" or "long live," and buwaya, "crocodile." The Mabuwaya Foundation is an NGO in the Philippines, that is concerned with the conservation of the Philippine crocodile....

 foundation, the Crocodile Conservation Society and the Zoological Institute of HerpaWorld in Mindoro.
The Philippine crocodile is a relatively small freshwater crocodilian endemic to the Philippines.