A Florida nuclear power plant was surrounded by 270 kilometres of canals. Decades later, American crocodiles turned them into a home

• A nuclear power plant is hardly the first place that comes to mind when thinking about wildlife refuges.
• Yet around Turkey Point, south of Miami, American crocodiles have made themselves at home in a vast network of artificial canals built for the plant.
• The waterways have become an important habitat for a species that once came close to disappearing from the United States.