Saltwater crocodiles were still common in the Ramree Island region up and into the 1960s, but the region no longer supports a viable population of crocodiles, likely due to hide-hunting, and by the early 1980s evidence suggested only scattered individuals remained (Thorbjarnarson et al. 2006).
Os crocodilos de auga salgada eran aínda comúns na rexión da Illa Ramree ata a década de 1960, pero a rexión xa non sostén unha poboación viable de crocodilos, probablemente debido á caza de peles, xa principios da década de 1980 a evidencia mostraba só exemplares dispersos (Thorbjarnarson et al. 2006).