Sometimes I am optimistic. The NT and Queensland gov'ts, the Aboriginal communities, hunters, some conservationalists are all behind a legal croc safari industy. It does not involve taking any more crocs out of the wild than already is done anyway. Problem crocs are captured or dealt with, Australia has about 500 to 700 CITES permits for saltwater crocs from the wild each year as it is. A safari industry might take 25 to a hundred of this number, and yield large income streams for remote Aboriginal communities. Don't our pollies talk about "empowerment" and creating employment and income for these places?

All logic is supportive of the idea.

Then we have the antis, the media and the nutters and ill informed ... many of who are in our Parliaments and bureaucracies ... and that is the pessimism.

Nevertheless we need to continually fight for it and keep hammering away.