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Failed business leaves Israel with a crocodile conundrum

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This could be in 'news of the weird', but it is a serious problem!

The crocs keep reproducing, and can live 70 years.

PETZAEL, West Bank -- An Israeli businessman appears to have bitten off more than he can chew with plans for a crocodile farm in a West Bank settlement. Hundreds of crocodiles have been stranded at the farm in a remote spot in the Jordan Valley -- left behind by a pair of failed business ventures.

The crocodiles were brought to the settlement of Petzael in the mid-1990s as a tourist attraction. Ensuing Israeli-Palestinian violence kept visitors away, prompting the crocodiles' purchase by entrepreneur Gadi Biton, who hoped to sell them for their skin.

But his venture flopped after Israel passed a law in 2012 defining the crocodile as a protected animal, and banning raising the animals for sale as meat or merchandise. Multiple attempts to sell them abroad have failed.

"We found ourselves with hundreds of crocodiles in this farm that no one knows what to do with," said David Elhayani, head of the Jordan Valley Regional Council. A lone worker feeds the animals dead chickens once every eight days.
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"I don't want to think of what will happen if a crocodile manages to escape and reaches the Jordan River, and then we'll have an international incident," Elhayani said. "Maybe then someone will wake up and find a quick solution to this problem."
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel...s-hundreds-of-reptiles-stranded-in-west-bank/
 
Why cant they be released into the wild ?
 
yankintx said:
Why cant they be released into the wild ?
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Where seems to be one problem. Cypress refusing to take them was mentioned. And he wants to sell them. The article said the owner is 'being difficult' but didn't elaborate.
 
Definitely news of the weird. Export them to the US. We eat gator.
 
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