Crocodile Hunters

I have just watched an item on A Current Affair about Steve Irwin, the so called , crocodile hunter. He is not one of my favourite people, as I think he is over the top with how he presents himself. But that aside, he is passionately trying to protect the wild life indigenous to the Top End of this great country of ours. Tonight's story was about one of the daughters of the late Sara Henderson from Bullo River station, Marlee, by name. She is trying to get a licence to hunt crocs for sport. She wants to bring 'big game hunters' here, and charge them exorbitant fees to hunt these reptiles. There are a certain number that are culled each year, and she can't see why they should not be shot for sport. Now, I am not a lover of anything reptilian, but, I think this is a bit obscene. She wants to charge $1,000.00 per foot, and for a fifteen footer, that is a lot of moula. Steve Irwin was very crafty, if you like, in getting the minister for the envoironment to participate in the capture and tagging of one of the big fellas, to try to convince him they need to be protected more. They are left over from the Dinasaur age, and I think they need to be looked after. It would not do a lot for the tourist industry either if they are hunted like this.