Australia eyes export of crocodile products
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Australian officials are looking to increase the export of crocodile products in 2016, after decades of official protection to stop them being hunted to extinction has increased their numbers.
Under a new Saltwater Crocodile Wildlife Trade Management Plan, which came into effect at the start of the year, the Northern Territory鈥檚 government wants to increase the trade in crocodile products, including skins.
鈥淪ignificantly, the WTMP supports the growth of industry by allowing an annual harvest ceiling of 90,000 viable eggs and 1,200 animals,鈥 its Minister for Land Resource Management Minister Willem Westra van Holthe said in a statement.
鈥淭his represents a 40 percent increase for eggs and a 100 percent rise for animals over the previous five-year plan limit.鈥
The eggs taken from the wild would be sent to crocodile farms for incubation, while live animals could be used for breeding or the export of skin and other body parts.
The local government hopes to benefit more from the deadly reptile, which is rounded up in the hundreds each year to protect residents.
The reptiles were considered a dangerous pest in the Northern Territory and hunted almost to extinction before being officially protected in 1971.
The population has swollen since then, posing dangers for swimmers, boaters and fishermen.
More than 250 crocodiles were removed from waterways around Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory, last year including a 4.25 meter-long male.
The Australian government rejected the idea of crocodile safari hunts in 2014.
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