croc hunting poll

[cris]

This is a croc hunting poll

 

[scotchbo]

im on the fence as i understand if the croc's are killing people they should be sorted out but if there not i say leave them be

 

[freddy]

i dont believe they should be hunted but if they turn up in residential areas they should be removed preferrably not dead just relocated but there will always be crocs that cant be , but still i remain on the fence

 

[elapid68]

Lets face it, we are the ones that keep expanding and encroaching on their territories. As for the the Crocs taking people, the Croc is just doing what the Croc have been doing for millennia and if people are dumb enough to hang around in Croc habitat, one or the other has to loose, and I'm afraid our soft, squishy bodies are no match for them. It's not as if they come knocking on our front doors trying to devour people, on the other hand, if a Croc is a habitual re offender then yes I see the argument for useing deadly force against it.

Damm, this fence is giving me a wedgie :shock:

 

[Xenogenesis]

Relocation is the answer if anything.... I know some crocs have travelled many Km's to get back to their territory, but just relocate them again.
It's their country, killing is not the answer.

 

[Davo66]

I am completely against croc hunting but I am all for croc farming! As long as we keep a wild stock numbers at a healthy figure and re-locate any problem crocs, then farming them and humainly killing them for profit sits with me! Whilst we are using farmed skins we are leaving the wild stock alone and that is what it is all about in my books!


Cheers,
Davo

 

[GreatSage]

If you go to africa on safari would you set up camp next to lions? If you did and got attacked would the same thing happen?

To say they should be hunted is a Redneck mentality in my opinion.

Farming is different.

 

[alumba]

Relocating is a sort term solution. there is only so many place’s where we can move them and if we keep filing up the places where there are other crocs soon there wont be enough food to keep up the species in that area. Not only could it be detrimental to the crocs but other species that may rely on that same diet. As we as people keep growing and taking up land there habitat gets smaller, and you get the same result, over population which will lead to more human fatalities and lack of food resulting in death for the croc and other species.

The way I see it we have two choices stop multiplying and taking up more land or cull back the crocs.

I have voted for employment opportunities BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN I SUPPORT SUFARI HUNTING. :x
It should be done humanely and by people that are or have
Been trained to do such things

I don’t want people to think I hate crocs. I love crocs, I have worked with them, and I have kept them they are a truly magnificent animal and very interesting to study and watch for hours.

This is only my opinion so please don’t get on the defensive

We as humans are a cancer to mother earth, just like cancer kills us we will keep multiplying in till there is nothing left and we kill her :cry:

Cheers Alumba

 

[Bakes]

I'm all for it. Make use of resorce that will be killed anyway. This way a croc will be killed quickly by a hunter that wants to retain his trophy (he won't want to pay all those $$ to see it slip away) not some station hand who plugs it full of holes and leaves it to die somewhere.

Whilst we are using farmed skins we are leaving the wild stock alone and that is what it is all about in my books!

Where do you think the breeding stock comes from?

I know some crocs have travelled many Km's to get back to their territory, but just relocate them again.

Are you going to pay for it? NO....I bloody do as I live here!

Its easy to say not to spread into their areas but we don't have much suitable land up here to build on and like it or not humans are spreading out. In this day and age animals have to pay their way. Its better to put a price tag on their heads and make them worth something than to class them as a pest and make them worthless.

 

[waruikazi]

I don't think you guys understand the situation that is up here. Since hunting was banned 40 odd years ago croc numbers have boomed and are in absolutely huge numbers, and saying that hunting has been banned is not entirely true any way. Traditional land owners still harvest them regularly and so far that has had no problems on the population of the aniamals.

The number of animals that are going to be hunted are miniscule compared to the population of crocs, last figure i heard on the news (i could have heard it wrong) was something like 200. Around that number of crocs are removed from the areas surrounding Darwin harbour each year and are usually put into croc farms. IMO this is not that different to legal collection of other reptiles like snakes and lizards.

 

[aussiesnakelover]

crocs would not be a problem if people wernt so damn stupid, you read all the storys in the paper about people being taking by crocs and you'll see how ignorent people are, if you we kept out of their way it would be fine. and then what does our human stupidity tell us to do, go shoot a croc "that lives in the are" with a bloody $h!t load of other in the area, killing one croc aint gonna make a difference diffently if you dont know it was the same one.
relocation is perfect for removing them from swimming holes in kakadu and litchfield and places like berry springs and this is what supplies breeding stock for the farms and parks
i dont see why we cant keep making money out of them they way we already are, having cruises in yellow water in kakadu and making profit, jumping croc cruises in adelaide river and like some of the croc farm do sell croc meat and have tours of the farm or crocydylus park educating people about them for money

culling them is not the answer, they are not a pest they are a native animal!

Just my opinion
i dont care if you think it worthless because im 14 im telling you anyway

Daniel

 

[snakes4me2]

I hope steve Erwin isnt a member here :lol:

Its just like the people at the zoo that jump the fence...Why would you even think about that?
If you go in there area thats what they will do.

 

[waruikazi]

It was going to happen one of these days anyway. We may as well do it in a way that can benefit local communities like it will. From what i remember the going rate was to be around $20,000 for a kill. Do you know how far that money could go to reduce poverty in som eof our rural communities???

 

[aussiesnakelover]

It was going to happen one of these days anyway. We may as well do it in a way that can benefit local communities like it will. From what i remember the going rate was to be around $20,000 for a kill. Do you know how far that money could go to reduce poverty in som eof our rural communities???

it sure could but it surely aint going to a remote comunity suffering poverty

 

[waruikazi]

Safari hunting guides have to pay traditional land owners to use their land, one of my mates dad runs a safari guide so i know that this is the case. When crocs are legal to be hunted it is gonna bring so many more hunters to the NT and it will have an affect, although it may be small to bgin with, on poverty.

 

[aussiesnakelover]

to make a difference, i reckon that would be a far bit of dead crocs, but i wouldnt know what it is like back then, i wasnt alive when it was legal
what ive said is just my opinion of the present
if it does go ahead i agree it will have some positives diffently if done the right way

 

[cris]

it sure could but it surely aint going to a remote comunity suffering poverty

how do you figure?

 

[aussiesnakelover]

people that want to hunt have to pay the land holders, not the comunity

 

[cris]

It will often be aboriginal land and as mentioned in that and other articles they are trying to get guides from remote aboriginal communities.
It obviously isnt a complete solution but every bit helps.

 

[aussiesnakelover]

yes true, but i would prefer if they were trying to get guides to take photos and just watch them