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By May 1961, forty-eight crocodiles had been captured and sent to Laguna del Tesoro.[22] Between 1959 and 1965, farm employees transferred some five thousand crocodiles to the center.[23] Most were captured in the southwestern swamp, others in Laguna del Tesoro. Large adults could be seen in the United States, but they had been in captivity for a long time.[20] Rescuing the Cuban Crocodile After the 1959 revolution, a novel conservation project - a crocodile farm - began to take shape in Boca de Guamá, near the Laguna del Tesoro. This would coincide with the expansion of crocodile hunting in the Caribbean and northern South America, the origins of most skins processed in European tanneries around the 1930s.[16] Some ambiguity remains as references to crocodile hunting often fail to state the species, although it can be inferred that I rhombifer i predominated in inland areas. Reno emphasized that the Cuban crocodile was not actually an alligator (or caiman), but a real crocodile whose skin was of a finer grade with more texture and would thus fetch a higher price. [Extracted from the article] |
