CAIMAN POPULATIONS DECLINE IN THE ECUADORIAN AMAZON

January 14, 2020

A group of Ecuadorian researchers led by Dr. Santiago Ron of PUCE monitored black caimans and spectacled caimans in the Reserva de Producción Faunística Cuyabeno between 1994 and 2011. This monitoring reveals that the population size of spectacled caimans decreased to less than half. The study…