CROC INVASION: Calls Arise for Surging Crocodile Population To Be Contained After Fatal Attack of Australian Child
Animal protection is a good thing – there are two ways about it – but we have to protect humans primarily.
In many cases, the desire to do good by some dangerous species is leading to a catastrophic rise in their numbers, causing a much more dangerous situation to arise for the human population.
That appears to be the case in northern Australia, where surging Crocodile numbers are becoming a deadly problem.
After a 12-year-old girl was killed while swimming, the territory’s leader has called for the croc numbers to be ‘either maintained or reduced’ and stated that they ‘cannot be allowed to outstrip the human population’.
Associated Press reported:
“The crocodile population has exploded across Australia’s tropical north since it became a protected species under Australian law in the 1970s,
