I heard recently that black caiman were down graded to CITES II in Ecuador and that Brazil had proposed to do the same. Anyone know anything about this?
Thanks
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Black Caiman
rwh
Aug 30, 2007 08:46 AM
Replies (3)
GLZ
Aug 30, 2007 11:13 AM
I believe they have been CITES II in Ecuador for many years, I would have to look it up to be sure but I think that population is CITES II subject to ranching but no annual quota has been set or put into place.
I dont think Brazil has any plans on changing there status, although they are quit abbundant in Brazil.
We will probably never see this species come into the USA, it will never be removed from the US ESA possibly lowered to Threatened at some point but not any time soon
rwh
Aug 30, 2007 06:13 PM
The brazil thing was proposed in july of this year I think...
http://intranet.iucn.org/webfiles/doc/SSC/CoP14/AnalysesEN/cites_prop_13.pdf
Thanks for the info...
BryanD
Sep 24, 2007 09:09 PM
Could anyone be this dumb?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7zeymVaoEY&mode=related&search=
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