Crocodilians are farmed for leather products in intensive conditions that deny almost all natural behaviour, raising welfare concerns for animals with complex sensory and social needs.
Crocodilians have complex sensory systems, social hierarchies and thermoregulatory needs that intensive farming fails to meet. High stocking densities cause injury from aggression. Wild-caught animals experience capture stress, transport trauma and extreme environmental change. Slaughter in unregulated facilities may cause prolonged suffering.