Conservation and
sustainable-use for spectacled caiman (Caima
yacare)
Caiman
yacare is a species of crocodile native of Bolivia, distributed
in the Amazon region. Given the existing pressure on the wild
populations, this species is listed in Appendix IIof the Convention on
International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES). Caiman
leather is the derived product with a more known market, however
efforts are being developed to create meat markets. The
contributions identified in the sector strategy to promote conservation and
sustainable-use practices of the species and its habitats are:
- To have a system
of sustainable use for the spectacled caiman based on solid
scientific information and management plans
- To have a
monitoring, control and registering system that is operative and
effective
- To have a more
complete legal framework to promote the sustainable use of this
species
- To have an
information and communication system, for all the actors along the
value chain, related to the most relevant topics to the sustainable
use of spectacled caiman
Currently,
the BioTrade National Programme of Bolivia is supporting the
crocodile value chain in the following aspects:
- Support the
development of a system of sustainable use with management plans,
which will be executed by the stakeholders
- Support the
National Scientific Authority to develop an assignment system and
improved distribution of quotas
- Norms and legal
procedures of spectacled caiman use and conservation are diffused to
all the beneficiaries and/or other related actors
- Technical and
economic information is diffused to all the beneficiaries and/or
other related actors
- Technical
assistance and training for the primary links of the productive
chain in operation
- A program of
Training and Technical Assistance for tanneries in operation
It
is expected that results from these activities will support the
definition of a BioTrade standard for Caiman in order to
differentiate the leather in the market.
Click
here for the legal framework for the implementation of management
plans in Bolivia (in Spanish).
For more information on
Bolivia's work with spectacled caiman, please visit the
BioTrade National Programme of Bolivia.
Appendix
II includes species not necessarily threatened with extinction, but
in which trade must be controlled in order to avoid utilisation
incompatible with their survival (www.cites.org)
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