Rebecca Renner’s book Gator Country takes readers into an undercover operation in the Florida Everglades. Alligator hides worth millions of dollars are harvested every year. Most of them come from alligator farms but alligators don’t breed in captivity so eggs must taken from wild nests. Conservation efforts have brought alligators back from the brink of extinction but enforcing rules and regulations with people who face down angry alligator mamas has hazards of its own.
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