Discover the Parks - Crocodile Management Team

Ranger Tim chats to Tommy Nichols from the Crocodile Management Team about how to Be Crocwise as we go on a behind the scenes tour with the team as the head out to check croc traps around Darwin.
The NT Government has a dedicated and active crocodile management program for public water bodies and parks and reserves in many locations across the Top End. This program aims to reduce the likelihood of a fatal crocodile attack.
In the early 1980s, the NT Government implemented an “incentive-driven conservation” strategy, to inform the public of the environmental and economic benefits of crocodile conservation. Positive incentives were created through commercial activity (tourism, crocodile farming and ranching) and negative incentives countered by an active ‘problem crocodile’ control program.
This incentive-driven wildlife program has been a major conservation success story. Saltwater Crocodiles are no longer a threatened species in the NT and have recovered such that they are now abundant.