Dingoes 1/9/10

Dingoes

Here is a WIN News clip showing a starving Fraser Island dingo.....but according to the Queensland government, such dingoes dont exist! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH-j7HMGiTQ (Copy and Paste)

Meanwhile, the group representing residents on Fraser Island off south-east Queensland says the fines for bringing domestic dogs to the island are not a strong enough deterrent and pose a risk to the local dingo population. Two dogs were allegedly brought to the island earlier this year. There is a $100 fine for bringing a domestic dog onto the island, with an extra $200 penalty if the dog is not removed within 24-hours. Fraser Island Association president David Anderson says some people are not worried about being fined.


"We'd like to see it publicised that people can't bring dogs onto the island," he said. "We don't want it to be the situation where people see it as a cheap alternative to kennel fees because a $100 fine, if you can afford that, it's probably cheaper than putting a dog into a kennel for a week or a fortnight." Mr Anderson says dogs have the potential to bring diseases to the island, which could devastate the dingo population. "The fine that was publicised in relation to the first incident - and that was a $100 fine - which is a pretty paltry amount of money when you think about the danger of bringing dogs onto Fraser Island have," he said. "[In particular] in relation to the dingo population ... you've perhaps got dogs that aren't neutered and dogs that aren't immunised." *ABC

This starving Fraser Island dingo has around 4 pups, and also has diarrhoea. The photo was taken during the week of 12/8/10. The Queensland government says there are no starving dingoes on Fraser Island, but if there were......"its entirely natural!" What a disgraceful way to treat an animal. What sort of State are we living in when such blatant cruelty is supported by the Labor Government and the Queensland RSPCA.

Fraser Island Dingoes 10/8/10

The Queensland Sunday Mail has driven another nail into the coffin of the Fraser Island dingoes. In an poorly written and researched article in the Mail last Sunday, John Sinclair was quoted as saying that the people wanting protection for the Fraser Island dingoes, were peddling a campaign of misinformation by showing pictures of starving dingoes. He claimed in the article that starving dingoes are a "natural" occurance, and they die off so other dingoes can be well fed! It's not the first time Sinclair has attacked efforts by others to protect the remaining dingoes from the Queensland State Government.

John Sinclair fought really hard with his own money and time against the Jo Bielke Peterson government to protect Fraser Island, as many others have done on other issues around Australia. Now the dingoes and other wildlife habituated on the Island appear to be sacrificed to the great God of Tourism. The recent Queensland government "independant" review into the Fraser Island Dingo Management Plan found the Plan was working fine...of course the Review would say that, the Review was wholly run by the State government consultants and bureaucrats who designed and administer the current Dingo Plan.

We've said it before and we say it again, the Fraser Island Dingo Managment Plan is the greatest wildlife management blunder ever committed in Queensland. Its difficult to understand why Sinclair would support this cruelty.* WPAA