Slow year for rangers after dismal wet season traps large crocs

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Updated July 23 2019 - 11:52am, first published July 15 2019 - 9:53am
MONSTER CROC: A male saltwater crocodile measuring 4.71 metres long as long as the average family car was trapped by Katherine rangers last year.
MONSTER CROC: A male saltwater crocodile measuring 4.71 metres long as long as the average family car was trapped by Katherine rangers last year.

Crocodile populations have soared since the Northern Territory banned hunting in the 1970s, but the dismal wet season has them trapped far from the Katherine River.

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