They soon discovered the soft belly skin of the crocodile to be far more valuable than its meat. Between 1945 and the late 1960s, salties were hunted so intensively for their scaly coats that ...

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Wildlife officers are doing their best to track a two-metre crocodile spotted well south of their usual range.

Beauchesne Dotted across northern Australia are 21 saltwater crocodile farms, home to around 130,000 crocodiles. Their skins ...

"Meet King Charles," the farm's owner John Lever says. Crocodile handlers wrangle the big male saltie from his watering hole. (ABC News: Aaron Kelly) The crocodile is given a muscle relaxant to ...

Skin hunters nearly drove the saltwater crocodile to extinction in Australia. An estimated 300,000 animals were killed for their skins between 1945 and 1970. Saltie populations fell as low as ...

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