Inside Australia’s secretive crocodile skin industry: Part 1
Today, award-winning journalist Katherine Wilson explores Darwin’s secretive crocodile farms, which are worth hundreds of millions of dollars – but could be costing even more.
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 hundred million-dollar industry, she knew she had to visit the Northern Territory herself.
As she got closer to this 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.
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Guest: Award-winning journalist Katherine Wilson
