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Crocodiles caught in fisherman's nets they have been just saved in time!
We have been actively lobbing the Government now for many many years now for the Game Hunting of Problem Crocodiles. These are Crocodiles that have attacked people or stock and are causing problems. We are asking for 100 crocodiles to be set aside for Game Hunters out of the 600 that are currently taken in the N.T.
What the public must understand is that hunting is already happening by the crocodile farms and the contactors...these crocodiles end up on their farms or being killed and in all cases the crocodiles will eventually die on the farms at some time. Most of these crocodiles are not value added to their full potential. And in some case they are just wasted completely:- shot by police or parks and wildlife officers and then buried on the spot.
We want this waste to stop! We have approached NT Parks and Wildlife on 4 occasions now over the years and have offered to process any crocodiles in the Northern Territory that are shot by police or Parks and Wildlife officers at no cost to the Government ~ We would be happy to teach the Traditional Owners, the skills of value Adding the crocodile to its full potential .....but this falls on deaf ears with the current Government and the waste goes on and on sadly.
This is a blatant waste of a protected species..
Some of the News Stories of the waste:- click on logo
Cops shoot dead attacking croc
Cops shoot 4.5m croc at back door
These are just a couple of stories of an ongoing problem. These crocodiles could fetch up $20,000 each in the market place, and monies could help our fellow Indigenous in their homelands.
There is no need for ANY waste of this valuable resource after all it is suppose to be a protected species.
What we propose to do, is to bring in is Professional Hunters:- the high end of the market for the Game Hunting proposal.
This in turn will give these crocodiles a value instead of being wasted or shipped off to a overcrowded crocodile farms.
We also believe that the crocodile should be managed more by the Traditional Owners the (Aboriginal people) as they are the owners of the crocodile and lands where the crocodiles come from.
This map is an area that is supplying the egg and skin trade to the current crocodile farms in the Northern Territory. In March 2009 last year at a crocodile industry meeting:- A board was formed by the Traditional Owners called Crocodile Country ~the Traditional Owners Crocodile Management Association. They supply around 80% of the crocodile to the current industry, with only the min return for them.......
Hopefully this board which is made up of Traditional
Owners, whom are currently active in the crocodile industry in the Northern Territory.
We hope they
will make a difference and allow them to have their say and offer long term support in the
industry for all Traditional Owners for the future.
We support Crocodile Country in their efforts to manage the crocodile in a sustainable way and create more employment for aboriginal people ~ not just working for CDEP but in real jobs. Hopefully the board can play a active role in the future of the crocodile in the N.T. and Australia as a whole.
Egg Allocation 2009/2010
50,000 crocodile eggs are due to come out of the environment for the farm trade, these eggs also help stock Queensland farms as well. So take note Australian Public these crocodile are eventually going to be killed...... Wake up Media!
The way the Management Plan has turned out, seems the farmers here in the Northern Territory now have the Territory as their new backyard for farming.. This area supplies and stocks their farms.... yet they won't pass Game Hunting ~ what is the difference ....
At lest with the Game Hunting, a real value can be put on these crocodiles. And
where is the employment for the Aboriginal People who own the crocodile???
Here is the current Crocodile Management Plan for the Northern Territory~ what do you think? Send us an email and give us your thoughts we will be happy to pass the onto the Federal Minister for the Environment.
We have had some results with this proposal after talking with Ian Campbell on the Crocodile Proposal. Below is the correspondence we have received from both of the Ministers involved at that time .
Letter from Ian Campbell Federal Environment Minister at the time and Other letter is from the Northern Territory Environment Minister of that time
Some of Victims of Crocodile Attacks over the years~ note that some of these images are graphic!
More people will be killed unless more is done!
We have put this here, not to upset anyone:- but to show that this is a very real problem that goes unaddressed by Government.
Nov 2002 Groote Eyelandt Gulf of Carpentaria -A 29 year old off duty Policeman was spear fishing off Groote Eyelandt when he felt a pain in his back. He then saw a Saltwater Crocodile swim past him from behind. Injury he sustained was a 3 cm gash on his back.
This is what the croc will do.
This is what the Federal Government is allowing to happen crocodiles shot and left to rot!
We offered the QLD Government to Taxidermy this croc so we could send the money to help out the family and still they wasted the crocodile......
This crocodile was shot by the E.P.A then the head was removed then the body was just dumped even though they didn't know if it was the crocodile that had attacked. Later to find out it wasn't the crocodile that attacked in the first place.
These crocodiles are a valuable natural resource they can be turned into a valuable product that could be worth up to $20,000, this money could have gone to the families left behind. Instead of letting them rot.
Crocodiles numbers have exploded and something has to be done. In excess of 150,000 crocodiles are stated to be in the N.T alone stated by the NT Government advisors
And yes you get the people down south saying "learn to live with them" they were here first but they don't have to live where crocs are and there needs to be a sensible balance between the two.
Sept 2005 The fatal crocodile attack in the remote Northern Territory has sparked renewed calls for trophy hunting of the dangerous reptiles. Englishman Russell Harris, 37, was snorkelling with a friend in a popular swimming spot off Groote Eylandt, near Arnhem Land, when he disappeared.
The body of the 56-year-old man was found close to where he disappeared while diving in a remote waters off Co Bourg Peninsula, 200 kilometres north-east of Darwin.
Two Australian men survived separate crocodile attacks while swimming in the country's remote tropical north, officials and local media reported on Monday.
Off-duty police sergeant Jeff Tanswell was snorkelling with his wife, a police constable, and two colleagues in the Torres Strait off Australia's far north-eastern tip on Monday when he was attacked by a crocodile at least three meters (10 feet) long.
It was 15 March 2009, when Briony Goodsell, her younger sister, and two close friends went off to have an afternoon swim at a local swimming hole not too far from home. This swimming hole had been used by local residents for decades during the wet season. When Briony was sadly taken by a crocodile.
BRIONY'S LEGACY
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