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The Chinese Alligator: is farming the last hope?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Myma E Watanabe
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In Oryx, October 1981, Huang Chuchien described the serious plight of China’s endemic alligator which had disappeared from most of its historic range and had been listed as a First Class Protected Animal. Earlier that year the author had joined him and other scientists to make a more complete study of the animal, to which ffPS contributed £100. The results of the study suggest that the alligator will perhaps only continue to exist in the wild for a few more years. The main hope for their conservation lies in alligator farming.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , October 1983 , pp. 176 - 181
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1983

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