Posted on 08/12/2024 8:20:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A mottled yellow-green and brown saltwater crocodile lies mostly submerged in the muddy waters of an Australian river, only its ochre eyes visible above a triangular snout as it scans for prey. When just such a reptile killed Charlene O'Sullivan's daughter 15 years ago, her first thought was that every one of the predators should be killed or caught around her home city of Darwin, to spare others from similar heartbreak.
"I initially probably supported removing every crocodile," said O'Sullivan, whose daughter Briony was 11 when she was taken while swimming with friends at a waterhole in 2009.
"But you remove one crocodile from a creek or a waterway, another one's just going to move in," the former real estate agent said.
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What is so effing difficult about this. Shoot. Skin. Make luggage. Repeat.
Like squirrels.
I believe it’s pronounced “choot em”
But the problem is that the government has disarmed every Australian, so that they can no more shoot crocodiles than they can defend themselves against Muslim fanatics or government fascists.
Will this be like the Great Emu War of 1932 (which I believe the Emus won)?
Send them here. They are welcome to populate the Rio
“I initially probably supported removing every crocodile,” said O’Sullivan, whose daughter Briony was 11 when she was taken while swimming with friends at a waterhole in 2009.
“But you remove one crocodile from a creek or a waterway, another one’s just going to move in,” the former real estate agent said.”
Bullcrap. Chick Zen logic. Alligators were hunted nearly to extinction in America before they were protected. And although well inside the natural range they are exceedingly rare in Vietnam. Vietnamese catch and roast them as street food.
Everywhere else around Vietnam, they flourish. But in Vietnam you won’t be meeting salties... they are not the top of the food chain there.
“I initially probably supported removing every crocodile,” said O’Sullivan, whose daughter Briony was 11 when she was taken while swimming with friends at a waterhole in 2009.
“But you remove one crocodile from a creek or a waterway, another one’s just going to move in,” the former real estate agent said.
This is the same stupid mentality that stopped the culling of Great Whites, or protests rattlesnake roundups.
That’s the spirit!
Culling is just proper wildlife management. We had the same issue in Florida wrt Alligators. They too were hunted to the point of being endangered. Given they lay a whole nest full of eggs though, they were able to bounce back strongly. They’re long past the point of being endangered. Now the state monitors their population and sells tags to hunters annually. The number of tags sold depends on the population management quotas - so it can vary by year. That has worked well to maintain ecological balance.
How was it they became "threatened" in the first place?
It takes a significant time for a crock to grow big enough to be a threat to people, even children.
Take every crock over ten feet long, perhaps on a graduated scale bounty, and the problem is solved.
People are much more capable of taking crockodiles than crocks are capable of taking people.
Guaranteed. Create a bounty and watch what happens. Look at the crazy people down in the Everglades who catch great big pythons with their bare hands for the money!
People will do just about anything if they can make money off of it.
“But the problem is that the government has disarmed every Australian”
No they haven’t.
Based on everything I’ve heard, you don’t have a right to own a gun in Australia. You have to have “special permission” from the government, even to keep one in your own home. That permission is granted to only a few.
Right? Guns mate! Crikey! Ya needs guns to take out the ‘’salties’’!
LOL, I fully concede that point.
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