Today's PDF of note is Australia's Northern Territory Crocodile Management Program, which honestly is entirely sensible, and only faintly terrifying.
They divide the territory into three crocodile management regions:
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Active Removal, in areas near cities or large towns, where they make an attempt to trap and remove any crocodiles that are seen. (It's not made clear whether "remove" means relocating them to an uninhabited area, or relocating them to the designer handbag market.) However, the document notes: "At any given time, there may be undetected crocodiles already within the zone, known crocodiles yet to be removed, and new crocodiles entering the zone. Even when a crocodile has been removed, it leaves a vacated territory for another crocodile to fill."
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Barrier and Removal, in a few designated parks where crocodile-free swimming lakes are maintained. I think these are mostly isolated swimming holes that don't connect to a river large enough for a crocodile to swim up.
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General Management, which is everywhere else, and where management "relies primarily on public education," which I understand to mean "this river belongs to the crocodiles now, it's theirs."
Obviously I don't think the government should exterminate crocodiles, they're a native species, it's just... you really get the sense that this compromise isn't made out of ecological sensitivity so much as an admission that we simply cannot defeat the crocodiles.