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Rebounding American crocodile declassified as an endangered species
Mar 20 2007, Irani

It was in 1975, the American crocodile was listed as a federally endangered species, as was on the brink of disappearing from South Florida - the only U.S. habitat of the reptile. The population was estimated at just about 300, by 1976.

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