Sources & Acknowledgements

This book was written by drawing on official government safety material, peer-reviewed and scientific research, and reputable news reporting. Facts have been restated in the author’s own words; no source is reproduced at length. The following are gratefully acknowledged as sources of factual information and as excellent places for readers to learn more. Mention here does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by these organisations.

Official safety and government sources

• The Northern Territory Government’s “Be Crocwise” public-safety program and the NT Parks and Wildlife Commission, the authoritative source for crocodile safety, swimming-area designations, and management in the NT.
• Parks Australia: Kakadu National Park visitor-safety and crocodile information.
• Northern Territory and Western Australian coronial findings, including the coronial inquest into the death of Briony Goodsell, for facts relating to that case.
• Australian Government environmental and species-listing material on the saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus).