Black Caiman

[Dark Jaguar]

ACCIDENTS WITH HUMANS AND THE HUNTING OF LARGE SPECIMENS IN ORDER TO AVOID RISKS OF ATTACKS AND FISH PREDATION GALORE.

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posted in 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07rwve3CxiE

''Careiro da Várzea is located 21 km away from Manaus ( Amazonas captal ) - Brazil. Around here the fishermen want a technical study to create a management plan to be concluded, on this work the plan is Caimans over 2 meters long to be slaughtered, its an way to diminish the risks in the water, who were victim of the animal agrees.

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The marks of violence of the largest predator of the Lagos dos Reis ( Lake of the Kings ) are in the minds and bodies of the locals who work over the waters here.
Traumas hard to overcome, the fisherman Francisco had a chunk of his left leg bit by a black caiman.''

Francisco das Chagas (fisherman)- ''We, at least me only fish because its my work but its kinda hard all the time I think about it somehting like ''will this happen again??''  I don't wish this for anyone ''

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Around the Igarapé dos Reis banks where there is abundance of food, Assis which is a survivor was working at , he had his right arm bit off.

Francicsco de Assis ( retired fisherman) - ''Very early in the morning at 5:00 AM, I grabbed my canoe and went to the lagoon, when I was letting go the ''maradeira'' the caiman came and attacked me, it jumped over me grabbed my arm and threw me into the water then I only recall me in the bottom bleeding already missing an arm. ''

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About the Identification work of the large black caimans in the area: (From the same Video above).

Aroldo Xavier (biologist) - ''The management is not gonna diminish the black caiman population we're gonna be making a control, we're gonna be removing a quantity per year that the enviormental organizations will give us to control the population of large animals which are the most dangerous.''

In Amazonas 2 studies are in the process one in Reserva Extrativista do Piranha in Manacapuru - Brazil and this one in the Permanent Protection Area of Lagos dos Reis in Município of Careiro da Várzea - Brazil.

Waldemir Falcão (President of Colony Z-53) - ''We have as an efficent result to the Amazonas state which we're proud of in terms of management is the Pirarucu (Arapaima gigas) management in Mamirauá Reserve which will be done similarly with caimans here in Careiro da Várzea's County.''

In the area of enviorment and permanent protection, fishing sustains more than 500 families.

Specialists believe the planning is the key word of elaboration of a management plan for a wild animal whatever the species.


Black Caiman Expert Ronis da Silveira's thoughts about it.

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Ronis da Silveira (Caiman Expert) '' The problem they got there is that the Caiman's management is only allowed in Brazil within the a few areas specially delimited such as Sustainable Development Reserves and Extractive Reserves, The Lago dos Reis despite having all of these biological and sociable components that are favorable to the management, the legislation yet don't allow this management there, what is needed to do is to change the legislation into a state level.''

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