Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that CCAM team rescued 12-foot crocodile as they relocate it after being captured by local swimmers in Clarendon, Jamaica…
“We received a call that the reptile was seen and that members of the Caribbean Coastal Area Management (CCAM) team had responded. I was in the area with friends celebrating my birthday so we went to give assistance,” terrestrial biologist Damion Whyte told the Jamaica Observer.
While the CCAM team, Whyte, and his friends, who are also scientists, secured the reptile, members of Jamaica Constabulary Force managed crowd control.
“The crocodile was processed, measured; a PIT tag was placed in the animal; and it was relocated in a wetland — out the reach of humans,” Whyte explained, adding that they reiterated to people at the scene that crocodiles are protected by law and should not be harmed.
Several residents from Clarendon managed to capture a crocodile at Salt River, where a crowd had apparently gathered to seek relief from the sweltering heat. A video surfaced over the weekend showing at least three men hauling the crocodile from the water with a rope while another holds the reptile’s tail.
Excited onlookers watch carefully as the men pull the crocodile onto shore with great effort. One of the bystanders shouts, “Nuh drown him!” As soon as the reptile is on land, a man kneels on his back while another fetches a rope to tie his mouth shut.
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