Protection call: A Fraser Island dingo (AAP: Jim Shrimpton) Groups concerned about Fraser Island's dingo management will today give a list of demands to the Queensland Government. The groups include the National Dingo Preservation and Recovery Program (NDPRP), the Humane Society International and the Gubbi Gubbi Indigenous people. They say the Fraser Island dingoes in the state's south-east are a conservation asset of international significance. NDPRP president Dr Ian Gunn says the dingoes are at risk of disappearing because of current management practices.
"Do we really want to see the dingo go the same way as the tasmanian tiger did and [be] shot out or culled out?" he said. "You do need to maintain areas of population that we've got now, even though they are fragmented." He says dingoes considered a risk to tourists should be relocated to wildlife reserves in western Queensland rather than be killed. "These properties I'm talking about, bound on the Simpson Desert area - they're huge areas of land were a lot of marsupials are," Dr Gunn said. "There's a great need to control the foxes and cats in those areas and the dingo has been shown to be the ideal animal to do that." * Ourbrisbane.com
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