NitroX
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| 13/02/12 02:11 PM |
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Re: Croc hunting back on the agenda
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Quote:Quote:Regardless how the arrangements are made, the permits will be sold to the highest bidder (as a rule). Landowners will be looking to cash in on 'their' crocdiles. Public tag or lottery system will never fly in the short-term .... but if the proposal does get-up and the trial succeeds, hopefully down the track a public ballot could be aranged - but that would work better on public land, where there are less competing interests.
Permits for saltwater croc hunting should be allocated on a public tag and lottery system. With winners able to arrange or buy access with landowners, outfitters. Aboriginals with any that are interested.
This concept to provide tags only to wealthy bigwigs is Australian in my opinion.
Outfitters could easily offer safaris and access to lottery winners.
Providing access to foreigners could easily be done by insisting they use an outfitter, as is done in 99% of other countries.
Australian native game should not "belong" to the landowner, whether Aboriginal or white. Kangaroos on my land don't belong to me, why should Blackfellas be regarded as "owning" crocodiles on their land. The usual black racism that exists in Australia ie extra benefits or rights to some based on race.
Native game doesn't belong to the landowner already in Australia, so we should be looking to the US system of native game being available for everyone equally or where scarce by a tag/lottery system.
And not to the, hunting only for the rich attitude like in Africa, where the locals have to "poach" to hunt.