AR-News: (AU) Top End residents call for croc hunting

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

Reporter: 

KERRY O'BRIEN: Those who live across the Top End of Australia have always 
held the crocodile in fear and fascination, with good reason I would have thought.

It was an endangered species till the Federal Government afforded official 
protection 30 years ago.

And since then its numbers have proliferated.

So much so that the NT Government is now proposing, with some confidence, a 
limited regime of commercial killing.

It wants to attract wealthy hunters and for the trophy fees to go to remote 
Aboriginal communities.

But the plan needs Federal Government approval and, as Murray McLaughlin 
reports from Darwin, that would mean a significant policy shift.

MURRAY McLAUGHLIN: The population of saltwater crocodiles in the Adelaide 
River, east of Darwin, is the most intensively studied in the NT.

Those studies show that the population has increased dramatically since 
crocodiles were protected more than 30 years ago.

CROCODILE TOUR GUIDE: Parks and Wildlife did a count on this river about four 
and five years ago and they generally consider the Adelaide River to have one 
crocodile for every 75m to 100m of riverbank.



full story:

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2004/s1043098.htm 

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