The Queensland government's strategy to manage Fraser Island's dingoes has been backed by an independent audit. The audit, by dingo expert Dr Laurie Corbett, has found the strategy of educating visitors, training rangers and erecting fencing in strategic locations, has reduced the risk posed to humans by dingoes on the popular holiday island. Environment Minister Kate Jones told state parliament on Tuesday there had been no incidents of dingo aggression within the fenced areas, and the audit had endorsed further training for rangers to educate visitors about dingo habits. Dr Corbett had also found evidence contrary to the popular opinion the island's dingoes were starving, Ms Jones said.
"His examination found there was an increase in the average size of the adult dingo on Fraser Island, from 16 kilograms to 18.3 kilograms," she said. "Most importantly Dr Corbett found that research to date has indicated that there is adequate natural prey for a sustainable dingo population on the island." Ms Jones said Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service would do further research to confirm this. The issue of dingoes on Fraser Island has split experts, with some saying the population is close to being wiped out.Ten dingoes have been destroyed this year, including one last month, after an attack on a four-year-old boy. *Sunshine Coast Daily
Ed Comment; No surprises here, Corbett designed the origonal Dingo Management Plan, now he produces an "independent report" saying everything is fine.....
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None of the real dingo people have any respect for Corbett. He set himself up as a so called " expert " and here he is auditing his previous audit that is not even peered reviewed etc.
ReplyDeleteKate Jones does not have a clue about dingo behaviour and sadly she will not listen Dingo people who would like to help her. Of the 71 private submissions to this Audit , Corbett seems not to have recognised any of them.
It is such a dreadful time when the DERM will not listen to other opinions especially when their History of Dingo management proves that the dingoes life will be very short lived and almost faces extinction.
The Rangers seem to be taking great joy in hazing and shooting young playful dingoes that are curious. No one has been " attacked" by a dingo yet the ignorant Rangers keep saying that because a dingo opens it's mouth it is going to bite or attack. If a dingo was to attack someone they would have dreadful bites and tears in their legs or hands.
And has anyone realised that all the dingoes killed this year have been pups less than 12 mths old.? No adult dingo has been shot.
But imagine if you were a dingo and had been caught and ear tagged at a very young age, had been continually hazed and tormented by Rangers you would be in fear of people. Yet the dingoes are not in fear of the tourists that visit their territory everyday, Dingoes have been seeking out human company all along.
Many tourists in the past have had wonderful experiences meeting dingoes and have not been bitten.
We urgently need a change in Management on Fraser Island because the Rangers now have failed dismally and the Tourism Industry is at grave risk due to their negligence.
I have spoken to and collected letters from people going back 50 and 60years experience on the Island with dingoes, some even admitted to allowing their children to play all day on the beach unsupervised, those were the good ol Forestry Management days. Today under the new regime we have fear, hunger, anger, despair and and a community that will not be quietened, no matter what we are being told, we can see with our own eyes that these animals are not happy, why is this allowed to continue on a World Heritage Listed Island? Are the powers that be just hard hearts?
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