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Submitted by admin on 3 December 2019

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
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