Meat and leather will sustain crocodile conservation project
28/08/2012
Corrientes-based Yacaré Porá is part of a wider industrial group that includes Solantu, a fashion brand that makes high-end clothes and accessories from sustainable resources. Use of crocodile skins in some of its accessories is also part of the Yacaré Porá initiative.
With funding from its meat and leather activities, the organisation is able to help the yacare caiman and the broad-snouted caiman reproduce in higher numbers than the two species are able to achieve in the wild.
When the meat plant is in operation, it will process between 12,000 and 15,000 kilos of crocodile meat per year, all of it destined for the domestic market.
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