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.

This is part one of a two part series, which we originally published in August.

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