This document presents the Institutional Program for the Conservation of the Orinoco Crocodile (2021), which allows us to define within the framework that gives knowledge of the state of the populations of the species, with its current problems, limitations and potentialities, the actions to follow for its recovery and conservation.
In fact, from resolution 0676 of July 21, 2017, issued by the Colombian Ministry of the Environment, in which the species ‘Crocodylus intermedius’ is declared in danger of extinction, the initial actions at the head of the COLOMBIA WILD CORPORATION, addressed the elaboration of a general conservation program that would be the product of the agreement of all public and private institutions with direct and/or indirect incidence both in the existing population relicts and in the territories designated as traditional habitats. of the species, subsequently considering the discussion of the draft program with delegates from Profauna de Venezuela and the Crocodile Specialist Group. In this context, the criteria established for each action made it possible to define the activities to be followed, considering the projected duration times, indicators and those responsible, respectively, in addition to determining the instrumental actions that would support the execution of the program. It is then intended that the guidelines established here be adopted by the institutions involved, in such a way that the activities framed within each action are coordinated and carried out appropriately to achieve the proposed goals.
Keywords: Orinoco crocodile, Critically Endangered, endangered species, reptiles.
