Sandstone tesselations, Sydney

Today the front page of the paper-version of the S.M.H. features a huge picture of a hunter standing in a rainforest. The 1st sentence runs as follows: "If the tourists are coming to crocodile country, then it is time for the crocodile to go" To boost paying tourists to come to the World HeritageNational Park Kakadu, they are 'dispersing' (a rich verb in Australia) and 'disposing  thoughtfully' of hundreds of crocodiles.

212- million- years-old croc-like reptiles were recorded. A12 m long reptile has been around  for  110 million years ago, weighing 10 tons. In Australia it has been recorded, that it lived 40 million years ago and 'is very similar to today's modern-day freshwater crocodile' . Even in Germany they existed 49 million years ago.
A Jurassic 10 m croc had apparently a near bullet-proof skin.

After surviving dinosaurs and a long evolutionary time, this species now gets utilised as raw materials for bags, kebabs, casino entertainment or are hunted privately or professionally smuggled.

If safety instructions are followed by visitors and locals, it would be possible to coexist and  entertain a sustainable form of tourism. In only 200 years Australia has a superlative record in eliminating the species of this country. Now the survivor of ancient times is no longer welcome to share its Lebensraum with homo sapiens.