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NT pushes for croc safari hunts
Safari hunters would be allowed to kill up to 25 large saltwater crocodiles under a new draft management plan released by the Northern Territory Government today. The plan comes just days after a fatal crocodile attack in the Daly River and several weeks after 11-year-old Briony Goodsell was killed...
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By: beau01
An estuarine crocodile better known as the saltwater or saltie is pictured in 2008 in the Adelaide river near Darwin. It took five men and a tranquiliser dart to remove a monster 16-foot (five metre) saltwater crocodile from a trap in Australia's tropical north, park officials said Friday
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By: no1news
Crocodile is a reptile that belongs to Crocodylidae family and Crocodilia order. Found inhabiting the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia, it looks like a huge lizard. Probably the most formidable of all reptiles, a crocodile has as many as 23 species, with the largest being that of ‘Saltwater Crocodile’ and ...
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- News Source: Uinta County News | 7 months agoNorthern Territory May Allow Crocodile Hunting, Australian Says April 16 (Bloomberg) -- The Northern Territory may allow some crocodiles to be hunted to create employment opportunities, the Australian newspaper reported , citing the government.
- News Source: BBC | 7 months agoSafari hunters could be allowed to kill large saltwater crocodiles under proposals put forward by Australia's Northern Territory government. There's concern for public safety after a spate of fatal attacks in the region. Last month a schoolgirl was...
- News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader | 7 months agoA five-year management proposal released Wednesday would allow up to 50,000 crocodile eggs to be collected, up from the current limit of 35,000, and expand the monitoring and trapping area outside the territory's capital of Darwin. The program will...
- News Source: The Courier-Mail | 7 months agoThe NT is now estimated to have the largest population in Australia at more than 80,000. Releasing a draft five-year management plan in Darwin today, NT Environment Minister Alison Anderson admitted: "We live in a croc-infested territory." The...
- News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation | 7 months agoSafari hunters would be allowed to kill up to 25 large saltwater crocodiles under a new draft management plan released by the Northern Territory Government today. The plan comes just days after a fatal crocodile attack in the Daly River and several...
- News Source: The Courier-Mail | 7 months agoSaltwater crocodiles won't be culled under new management plan April 15, 2009 11:31am THE culling of saltwater crocodiles won't be used to control their numbers in the Northern Territory, despite three recent attacks. Two of the attacks were fatal,...
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