Paraguay's government has authorized farmers to kill 2,500 endangered crocodiles for their meat and hides, saying the animals are destined to die anyway because a crop irrigation project diverted a major river away from their habitat and a drought dried it further.
About 50 crocodiles are dying each day, the government says. Mud cakes many of the living crocodiles as the lakes dry in part of Paraguay's Chaco region dotted by marshes and farmlands along the Argentine border where the Pilcomayo River flows.
Fed by waters from the Andes Mountains, the Pilcomayo was diverted 10 years ago to irrigate Argentine and Paraguayan farms. But that move and a prolonged drought has left many of the lakes and swamps with stagnant water, and not any more.
Severe Drought Kills Caimans in Paraguay's Pilcomayo river
A caiman is an alligatorid crocodilian belonging to the subfamily Caimaninae, one of two primary lineages within Alligatoridae, the other being alligators.
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