Heaven forbid - that the NT News would actually have to find something more newsworthy than a croc story to grace the front pages!

The proposals for "trophy hunters/safari operations" to take out the larger specimens may have had some merit, but like most outdoor activities here in the Top End any one of these is fraught with a degree of peril.

Marine stingers, sharks, rays, mud geckoes(crocs) Indonesian fisher-folk - the list goes on... Buffaloes, deadly disease carrying mozzies, bugs of all types, snakes, Mango Madness, 'The Build Up' etc. It really is the last frontier.

Curiously though, the speed restrictions brought in by our savvy Labor Government have actually had a negative effect on the road toll - no mention yet of culling politicians?

Graham,
No need to cull, its all in proper communication.

Last time i was in NQ our first visit was to the wildlife park and I looked the biggest croc in the eye and said. Tell your mates, if you don't come in the pub I won't go in the water. Didn't see one croc in the pub after that. No problem!

It's unfortunate this topic always come up in the media directly after an attack. It makes the subject seem like vengeance, which for many, it is. If that is the only reason for the culling then it's wrong to do it.

All species that flourish unnaturally need to be kept in check, however, for environmental, safety, and economic reasons. It NEEDS to be done in a professionally and no one should profit from it through on-sale of the animal. It should be gifted, unless the animal in plague proportions.

A very interesting outlook to say the least and I fully disagree with the cull. Habitat for these poor creatures is decreasing so rapidly, the only place where they will be appreciated is in a zoo. Not a very dignified end to such a majestic creature. When worlds population grows to the magic 9.2 Billion this will only add up to the total extinction of these and other creatures in the wild.
People forget that we are the invaders and it's "us" that are the unbalanced ones.( like i said before, we humans will eat this plant alive )
Better education and public notices with small advertisements on t.v. to hint the fact that you are in natures backyard and not down a local public place, where humans are quite comfortable and their habitat.

Croc,s are a fact of life! so if your taken, its your fault! The traps around cairn waterways, do the job quite nicely and if government bodies would stop and think for a minute, its at the nests where the solution lays, not shooting them!

Remove the eggs to control the population!

What is the problem?

EVO

To the arrogant twits, from their safe abode in suburbia, demanding others live in danger of crocks, go jump. Your uninformed opinions do you no credit. If you wish to love these things, go do it, but don't expect others to do it for you. That's the way of the gutless. I'm sure the people of Cooktown will spear you a few to look after in your backyard, in the south, if you asked.

If those who live with them choose to, or not to have more of them, that should be their right, not yours. If they believe the danger of having them walk into their back yards, is just too great, that should also be their right. It is not the right of some greenie parks ranger to make that decision for them, or some city dweller either.

How city folk, who will not let their kids walk, or bus to school, have the hide to suggest others kids live in real every day danger, is just unbelievable, & totally unreasonable

Hasbeen! And what do you purpose we do about this problem? You have suggested nothing.
How do you know I Live in suburbia? I could live up a gum tree for all you know! No-one is demanding anything.

Arrogant, twit, idiot, Iam sorry, I forgot! no-one on this site hasbeen any of those three. Silly me.

EVO