But they say they are losing that race. Decades of poaching for leather pushed the Orinoco crocodile to the brink, and now struggling Venezuelans who hunt the animals for meat and take their eggs ...

Orinoco crocodiles – some of the largest living reptiles in the world – do not thrive in their South American river habitat as they once did. Watch to learn more about the efforts to save them.

Biologists and veterinarians are raising hatchlings of an endangered crocodile and releasing them into the wild to prevent, or at least delay, what they fear is coming ...

But they say they are losing that race. Decades of poaching for leather pushed the Orinoco crocodile to the brink, and now struggling Venezuelans who hunt the animals for meat and take their eggs ...

A drone view of cars transporting Orinoco crocodile hatchlings raised in captivity as they wait for a flatboat to cross the river and release the animals into the wild at the Capanaparo River ...

But they say they are losing that race. Decades of poaching for leather pushed the Orinoco crocodile to the brink, and now struggling Venezuelans who hunt the animals for meat and take their eggs ...

But they say they are losing that race. Decades of poaching for leather pushed the Orinoco crocodile to the brink, and now struggling Venezuelans who hunt the animals for meat and take their eggs ...

But they say they are losing that race. Decades of poaching for leather pushed the Orinoco crocodile to the brink, and now struggling Venezuelans who hunt the animals for meat and take their eggs ...

But they say they are losing that race. Decades of poaching for leather pushed the Orinoco crocodile to the brink, and now struggling Venezuelans who hunt the animals for meat and take their eggs ...

But they say they are losing that race. Decades of poaching for leather pushed the Orinoco crocodile to the brink, and now struggling Venezuelans who hunt the animals for meat and take their eggs ...