What is so effing difficult about this. Shoot. Skin. Make luggage. Repeat.
Like squirrels.
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.
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.