In fairness mate, most of us don't live near or have any interaction with crocs.
Land. Preferably croc free.
Flesh tax?
A measured view but I think us humans have more control over our habitat choices than the crocs have over theirs.
And our habitat is much bigger than theirs.
There is significant force in this well articulated submission.
There were no figures to enable that assessment, but it is a good point you make. Human populations around almost all of the listed animals would almost certainly be larger than those near crocodile habitat. My point was more to do with the demonisation of crocodiles, as well as sharks etc, when an attack takes place, when in fact far more commonly encountered animals also kill people pretty regularly.
And they don’t quite distinguish between their natural wilderness areas and Wattle Blossom Avenue:
Well that certainly helps to quell any hysteria that people may have. Starting at the top, we need to focus more on horses. The poor bloody cows have already brought attention to themselves for their continual farting, their days are numbered.
Our ecosystem in Australia is different in that crocs here don’t have predators unlike countries with large pythons, big cats like jaguars, lions, tigers, leopards, and hippos. The people who decide that crocs need protection obviously don’t discriminate, it’s a one size fits all approach.
Appreciate you taking the comment as a fair discussion point. Too often it's about being right rather than getting to some semblance of truth or agreement on things.
Only if we are allowed to be.
If there were as many interactions between people and crocs as there was between people and every other animal you’ve listed, those stats would would be far higher. It is flawed logic.
He could make a run for a senator though...
100,000 is the ballpark estimate for the NT alone - and it may be light. You have to add WA from around Broome up and QLD from about Rocky up. 200-250K would be a closer number.
