In the slow-moving freshwater of the Amazon River basin, a dark, scaly crocodilian known as the black caiman (Melanosuchus niger) is attempting a comeback from near extinction, but another ...

Guyana is home to four species of Caiman including the Spectacled Caiman, Black Caiman and two species of Dwarf Caiman; they are classified in the subfamily Alligatoridae and are often mistaken ...

A black caiman approaching bait. Image courtesy of Jack Hernández. “Between the 1970s and early 1980s in that area of Colombia [near the reserve], there was a huge problem with caiman hunting.

(This includes a research program to reduce the loss of endemic yellow-spotted river turtles, a species threatened by flooding and human consumption.) Seeing the lodge’s black caiman research ...