AR-News: (ANC) Proposed 'Crocodile Safari Hunts' Spark Outrage

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

Animal welfare groups are condemning a plan that would allow tourists to hunt 
crocodiles in an annual safari through northern Australia. 
The proposal calls for allowing tourists to hunt Saltwater crocodiles, a 
species that has been protected in Australia since 1971. About 600 are already 
killed for their skins each year by licensed hunters. 
Australia exports about 12,000 crocodile skins each year. 
According to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 
(RSPCA), territory officials want 25 of the 600 crocs to be hunted in the safari 
scenario. The RSPCA said allowing visitors to kill the animals would be cruel. 
"If the culling of saltwater crocodiles is indeed deemed necessary, it should 
be firmly in the hands of trained professionals, not rich overseas tourists 
whose only aim is to bag another trophy to show off back home," said Hugh 
Wirth, the RSPCA's national president.


full story:
http://www.anc.org/wildlife/wildlife_article.cfm?identifier=2004_0204_crocodil
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