Australian rangers trap huge saltwater crocodile

Wildlife rangers have trapped a 4.4-metre saltwater crocodile at a tourist destination in Australia's Northern Territory, the biggest caught in the area in years, a wildlife ranger said on Monday. The 350 kilogram male was caught in the Flora River at a remote nature park 120 kilometres southwest of the Outback town of Katherine. Three years ago, a larger 4.71-metre croc had been trapped in the same wildlife management zone. Crocodile numbers have been increasing across Australia's tropical north since federal law made them a protected species in the early 1970s. The captured croc had been taken to a crocodile farm to become part of a breeding program.