The swamps and rivers of Papua New Guinea still have large numbers of both freshwater and saltwater crocodiles, and the Government is fully aware of the value of this resource and committed to conserving it. Both crocodile species can be successfully bred in captivity, but an attempt to establish village crocodile farms, where crocodiles would be raised from eggs laid on the farm as distinct from raising captured young wild animals, was not economically attractive to villagers. So farm breeding continues as a research project, while in the villages the aim is to achieve wise utilisation and conservation of the wild stocks.