DARWIN: 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.
A crocodile in the Adelaide River, located south of the northern Australian city of Darwin, on Apr 20, 2017.
O'Sullivan's change of heart is emblematic of a growing debate in Australia's tropical north, where unrestricted hunting nearly eradicated"salties" by about 1970, only to have strict conservation rules drive up their numbers ever since. But even a modest culling quota, unveiled in April, has rattled conservationists, Aboriginal elders and owners of tourism businesses.
Allowing crocodiles free rein would lead to deaths, said Hugh Possingham, the former Queensland chief scientist, whose 2021 study targeted animals longer than 2.4m. It could even bring increased attacks, if it led the public to believe that areas previously off-limits were safe, he added.
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