Alligators, protected in the United States because of their decreasing numbers, have been the target of rustlers who kill them for their valuable skins. The skins fetch hundreds of dollars on the black market. Game wardens are now keeping constant guard over the reptiles in the swamplands in the south of the United States.
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Press, 18 October 1976, Page 13
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54Alligators, protected in the United States because of their decreasing numbers, have been the target of rustlers who kill them for their valuable skins. The skins fetch hundreds of dollars on the black market. Game wardens are now keeping constant guard over the reptiles in the swamplands in the south of the United States. Press, 18 October 1976, Page 13
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