The true cost of crocodile skin fashion
As award-winning journalist Katherine Wilson started looking into the NT’s booming industry, what she found was shocking.
Darwin’s crocodile farms supply some of the world’s most exclusive fashion houses.
But as award-winning journalist Katherine Wilson started looking into this booming $100 million industry, she knew she had to visit the Northern Territory herself.
As she got closer to the secretive industry, what she found was shocking: animals being kept in cramped conditions and being killed in drawn-out processes, Indigenous people who say they are being ripped off for dangerous work, and claims of conservation by a scientist with a sordid criminal history.
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This is part one of a two part series, which we originally published in August.
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