This Action Plan is being developed as a component of the Management Plan for the American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus). The activities of this action plan are envisioned for three phases: short, medium and long term.

Short Term objectives include:

• The development of institutional capacity to deal with nuisance crocodiles;
• Activities that will be undertaken in order to implement these objectives include:
• Public education
• Establishing procedures for problem crocodiles
• Establishing an Action Plan Group
• Training

Medium term objectives include:

• Determining the island-wide. population and the carrying capacity of the habitat;
• Enforcing the provisions of the Wildlife Protection Act and making recommendations for changes where deemed necessary.
• Activities that will be undertaken in order to implement these objectives include:
• Identifying and mapping relocation sites;
• Conducting an island-wide crocodile survey;
• Enforcing the Wildlife Protection Act.

Long term objectives include:

• Promoting the crocodile as an animal, which afford economic benefit by means of commercial rearing and ecotourism.
• Activities that are anticipated to be undertaken in order to implement the objective include:
• Establishing eco-tourism and protected areas/wetlands
• Farming