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with only around 4,000 in the wild and illegal hunting and climate change threatening their long term survival. so scientists are doing what they can to help protect them, as the bbc s tim allman explains. in the battle to save the crocodiles of cuba, every little victory counts. this baby croc had been taken by poachers but is now being returned to its natural habitat. translation: releasing - crocodiles is really impressive because we return the animal to a free life in the wild. they face several challenges, illegal hunting and the results of climate change. these are fierce little creatures, but they don t stay little for long. they usually grow to around 2m in length but some can get a lot bigger than that. the fundamental problem is they are native to only two very specific locations in cuba and they don t travel very far, so any threat to their habitat is a threat to them. researchers try to study them in the wild but sometimes they have to take
they face several challenges, illegal hunting and the results of climate change. these are fierce little creatures, but they don t stay little for long. they usually grow to around 2m in length but some can get a lot bigger than that. the fundamental problem is they are native to only two very specific locations in cuba and they don t travel very far, so any threat to their habitat is a threat to them. researchers try to study them in the wild but sometimes they have to take more drastic action. translation: between may and june, cuban crocodiles i make their nests and when that happens, we collect the eggs. it s the most dangerous time and we must be most careful because the cuban crocodile takes great care of its nests, with great passion, and they attack us. the long term ambition is a thriving community of cuban crocodiles in the wild but for now, some of them have to be studied in captivity.