Species protection madness in Australia

BREITBART.COM - Just The News:

"The number of wild 'salties' estimated to live in the Northern Territory has jumped from as few as 3,000 in 1971 to more than 75,000 currently."

"But Manolis does not think culling is the answer."

Charlie Manolis, the article tells us, is the co-author of a study that found one in three croc attacks in Australia involved alcohol consumption (not necessarily to the point of drunkenness). So? That means two-thirds of attacks do not involve alcohol and some number between zero and one-third involve minimal drinking with little impairment of judgment. Besides, this is Australia - not known as a land of T-total abstainers.

The real news here is not the non-study published in the highly partisan Wilderness Society Medical Journal. The real news is that a supposed expert would dismiss out of hand the possibility that increasing the number of crocs by a factor of 25 would have anything to do with increasing human-croc interactions which are often disastrous for humans. Here in Pennsylvania, the species of animal life the most dangerous to humans is the whitetail deer and we have very good statistics that the deaths and injuries to humans caused by interaction with deer are related to the numbers of deer.