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Appendix A: Crocodile Farming Around the World
Appendix A: Crocodile Farming Around the World
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Recently the government has expressed interest in establishing a farm for saltwater crocodiles in southern China. Taiwan Taiwan has one crocodile farm or rearing station, but it is too far north to breed its own stock, except in heated indoor enclosures.
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A new experimental farm for the Philippine freshwater crocodile (Crocodylus novaeguineae mindorensis) was established by Silliman University in an attempt to preserve that endangered species and to promote an economic interest in crocodile conservation.
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and five exotic species: South American caiman (Caiman crocodilus) , New Guinea freshwater crocodile (Crocodylus novaeguineae)
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was established at a popular hotwater spring resort area, using animals supplied by a Florida farm. The Israeli program will earn money from tourist admissions and from future production of hides.
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Zimbabwe's Department of National Parks and Wildlife is striving to ensure that its legitimate international trade in farm-raised hides does not provide illegal operators in other countries with the opportunity to sell poached hides (for example, forging papers that claim their hides originated on legitimate Zimbabwe farms)
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Petitions for approval are currently before the Botswana government. Chad In the late 1960s French businessmen established a farm for Nile crocodiles near Lake Chad.
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In recent years several businessmen in Mexico have expressed interest in starting one or more crocodile farms, but none has yet materialized. El Salvador In the late 1960s, the Louisiana Game and Fisheries Commission supplied specimens of the American alligator to a cattle rancher in El Salvador for the purpose of establishing an experimental farm.
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However, the reptiles are everywhere killed as vermin. Peru Peru has proposed harvesting certain wild populations of caimans (Caiman crocodilus)
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