Conservation implications of commercial hunting of black and spectacled caiman in the Mamiraua Sustainable Development Reserve, Brazil

Biological Conservation

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 103-109

  Da Silveira, Ronis ^a   Thorbjarnarson, John B ^b  

^a Cx P 38 CEP 69470 000 Amazonas ^*  (Brazil)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Caiman; Hunting

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION STATUS; HUNTING; NATURE CONSERVATION; PROTECTED AREA; REPTILE;

BRAZIL;

CAIMAN; CAIMAN CROCODILUS; CROCODILUS; MELANOSUCHUS NIGER; REPTILIA;

EID: 0033006207     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(98)00084-6     Document Type: Article

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