|
This picture taken on August 30, 2023 shows a crocodile leaping out of the water towards a piece of meat on a stick in a lagoon at Crocodylus Park located on the outskirts of the Northern Territory town of Darwin. Before government protection in the 1970s, an estimated 98 per cent of the wild saltwater crocodile population had disappeared in the Northern Territory, driven by leather demand and culling. Now, according to government figures, over 100,000 “salties”, which can grow up to six metres long and weigh up to 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds), hunt along the coasts, rivers and wetlands of the continent's far north. (Photo by David Gray/AFP Photo)
|
