Join us for family activities highlighting some of Earth’s most fascinating reptiles. The crocodile species in Zoo Atlanta’s care, the critically endangered African slender-snouted crocodile, is among the most endangered of Africa’s crocodilians. Continued habitat loss, habitat conversion for agriculture (palm oil and rubber operations throughout Gabon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia and Sierra Leone) and increasing human pressures on natural resources (freshwater fisheries) have dramatically reduced wild populations. It is estimated that population reduction will continue to increase to 60 to 90 percent in the next 75 years, placing this species at great risk for extinction. MORE »