Crocodile Urban Management Area maps
On 1 November 2007 The Minister for Sustainability, Climate Change and Innovation stated in Parliament that crocodiles greater than two metres in length that occur in defined urban zones (Crocodile Urban Management Areas) would now be regarded as problem crocodiles unless they were just moving through an area or the area was well-known crocodile habitat.
These management areas cover centres of contiguous urban development within city centres excluding natural, unaltered waterways and foreshore areas. Within these areas, crocodiles over two metres that are found in artificial waterways or artificial habitat including golf courses, drainage canals and residential properties will be targeted for immediate removal.
It should be remembered that populated areas not in a Crocodile Urban Management Area, such as smaller regional towns, are still subject to the provisions of the crocodile conservation plan in regard to problem crocodiles (i.e. estuarine crocodiles that are declared to be problem crocodiles in these areas will be removed).
Last updated: 27 March 2008
