Orinoco Crocodile – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com Thu, 04 May 2023 16:00:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://onvenezuela.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-12.31.03-PM-1-32x32.png Orinoco Crocodile – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com 32 32 Fighting to save Venezuela’s Orinoco Crocodile https://onvenezuela.com/fighting-to-save-venezuelas-orinoco-crocodile/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fighting-to-save-venezuelas-orinoco-crocodile Thu, 04 May 2023 13:55:00 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=16523

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, it is critically endangered, having suffered an 80-percent population reduction in just three generations in the early and mid-1900s.Efforts that started in 1990 to breed new crocs in captivity have seen some 10,000 freed back into the Venezuelan wild.But their numbers have not significantly increased. Full article -> PHYSorg

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