Posted on 12/01/2012 11:48:36 PM PST by george76
Today’s attack was a chilling reminder of the day earlier in November when the seven-year-old girl was snatched by a saltwater crocodile 210 miles east of Darwin.
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Saltwater crocodiles, which can grow up to 25ft and weigh more than a ton, are plentiful in the Northern Territory...
Crocodiles are protected in the Northern Territory and their numbers have increased steadily, resulting in a number of attacks on people,
One man writing to the Northern Territory News today said: ‘This has got to stop – there are too many crocs.
‘Of course we need to use common sense when in the bush, but please let’s have a sensible policy on the crocodile population.’
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They can but they don't.
I saw a PBS special where they tried to find the largest crocodile/alligator and the longest they could come up with was about 22 feet.
Well then, shoot, and let nature take its course. A gator that big will feed some villagers and a whole lot of wildlife.
I believe they can still legally own shotguns and rifles.
I have only had tasted a little bit of Croc - not that bad - fishy taste - chicken texture. When they get this big they mnay not be good eating I don’t know.
A little control of the species wouldn’t go astray. I think this would have been an Aboriginal Community where this happened - as far as I know they are allowed to hunt them for food but it sounds like it has gotten past that!
Very sad for the family and the whole community would be in mourning.
Mel
You are 100% correct - I don’t know why but 25 footers would be almost like finding Moby Dick.
Some estuarine swampland up in the remote Northern Territories of Australia is hardly “half the continent.” Most of Oz, outside of the tropical north, is so arid that the only crocs people see are either in a zoo, or those cheap plastic shoes that kids wear.
Man is part of the environment, animals that don’t adapt to man being in the environment must perish.
Dreadful. RIP.
If you let them, they will come. At some point, you have to manage predator populations, too. Parts of the US are well aware of this, other parts, in the land of the paved sidewalk, not so much so.
We are part of the ecological landscape, and that does not imply that we have to make contributions to other animals in the food chain.
Don't let Agenda 21 thinking (it's a UN--global--thing) influence you, there are plenty of places where these critters exist, but sooner or later, you have to keep them out of your back yard.
Just glad we were not hurt from being kids.
GrandMa said they drained the pond different times and told us the stories to keep us out of there in case one of us were to drown. We did see snakes though not for long. It got to be a place to where everyone in the family came there to swim. My aunt had old tobacco barns and old cabins on the property that she allowed later to be used by the locals to sell fruits/fresh vegetables. But you had to know the family before you got access onto their private road.
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