These horrible man-eating monsters are way out of control in Queensland and the Northern Territory.
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Liberals and Labor have never cared about the numerous people who are eaten by crocodiles every year nor could voters expect them to worry about a human life when the Uniparty kills between 10,000 to 14,000 human babies each year in Queensland, many at nine months old.
It remains to be seen if the new Liberal/National administration will change their opposition to removing many thousands of crocodiles overrunning rivers, creeks, estuaries and the ocean untouched for decades.
No water anywhere is safe to enter north of Gympie on Queensland’s southern coastline. This includes fresh and salt water rivers, creeks, billabongs and dams on the coast or hundreds of kilometres inland.
Salt water crocodiles can traverse dry land walking between waterholes and dams on cattle and farm properties covering many kilometres, usually at night and because of their exploding numbers smaller crocs are being forced out of larger waterways to inhabit smaller creeks or dams.
In North Queensland crocs are accounting for ever-increasing numbers of livestock casualties, particularly cattle. While numerous responsible property owners, anecdotally remove crocs every year it has not had much effect on their huge numbers.
Property owners report massive numbers in their creeks and dams after a series of extended wet seasons. Reported public sightings up until October last year were 1025 according the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service. This is the highest number for seven years.
Many hundreds or perhaps thousands of sightings by fishermen, hunters and boaties during the NQ tourist season go unreported.
Cairns News in is the middle of one of the most concentrated populations of crocodiles in Queensland yet frequently we see tourists haunting banks of creeks and rivers.
Last year, a tourist with his family stepped too close to a high earth bank which collapsed and the tourist, a doctor, fell into the waiting, gaping mouth of a giant croc in the Annan River west of Cooktown. His poor kids were mortified.
Shane Knuth proposes to create a Crocodile Authority in Cairns with staff to deal with the overflow of crocs in the north. His plans include culling because every crocodile farm is overstocked with rogue crocs caught around the state and croc farmers do not want them.
Aboriginal communities would be given the opportunity to run safari businesses and egg collecting which could generate a lot of much needed income for these struggling people.
The skin value of a wild croc over two metres in length is zero. Skin values for similar-sized farmed crocs is reasonable but farmers are dealing with a fickle overseas market.
Every croc is a potential man eater. The only logical solution to thin their numbers is to shoot the bastards.
