Minister allows harvesting of eggs and culling of crocodiles for meat, skins, teeth and skulls to curb growing populations
Local crocodile in Kakadu National Park, Northern Territiory, Australia. Photograph: James D. Morgan/Rex Features
Australia's environment minister rejected a proposal for crocodile safari hunting today, but increased the number of eggs and animals that can be harvested to cull their population and make the country's north safer for people.
Environment minister Peter Garrett said the five-year management plan would allow Australia's Northern Territory to continue exporting crocodile products "on an ecologically sustainable basis".
Both saltwater and freshwater crocodiles were hunted to near extinction but have become plentiful in the tropical north since they became protected by federa
Associated Press
guardian.co.uk, Friday 2 October 2009
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