Fraser Island Dingoes
Here is a must watch Video on how DERM are interfering with the Fraser Island dingoes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSSaknF6Wnw&feature=feedu
Dingoes
Dingoes have become such a problem in the state's (Sth Australia) north that the local MP is calling for the introduction of a $200-a-head bounty. Farmers are warning the viability of some sheep farming could be at risk if dingo numbers continue to grow. Liberal MP for Stuart Dan van Holst Pellekaan has told Parliament the dingoes are "ravaging pastoral stock in SA below the dog fence" which is meant to keep them out of farming areas. "The difficulty with dingoes is they are extremely hard to shoot, to poison and to trap," Mr van Holst Pellekaan said. Dingoes are pushing south because the bumper season in the Outback is providing ideal breeding conditions. A property near Broken Hill has lost 3000 lambs to dingoes in the past two years. Dingoes are supposed to be kept out of pastoral areas by the 5320km dog fence, which runs from outside Brisbane to the Nullarbor Plain.
South of the fence, dingoes are prescribed pests which can be shot or baited. "I believe that we ought to have a system whereby people who shoot a dingo can claim a bounty from the government," Mr van Holst Pellekaan said. He said he believed the only people who should collect the bounty would be pastoralists with leases below the dog fence who were already taking part in other government programs for the culling of dingoes. SA Farmers' Federation president Peter White said reports from the pastoral country showed there could be as many as 200 dingoes breeding. "We have seen some substantial stock losses in some areas," he said. He welcomed the idea of a bounty, saying "anything we can do to reduce these numbers is certainly a good idea". If dingo numbers continued to grow, the viability of running sheep in some areas could be at risk. The Government is unlikely to support the move with Environment Department chief executive Allan Holmes saying four major studies on bounty systems in Australia had concluded they were flawed. He said Natural Resource Management boards were best placed to deal with regional problems of this sort and bounties were not one of the recommended methods. *SA News
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TIME IS RUNNING OUT..SAVE FRASER ISLAND DINGOES… One very significant statement that we hear over and over, is that the dingoes in the past, were never a problem, in that, no-one felt that there was any danger from walking on the beach, fishing or camping, in areas that dingoes were known to frequent. Dr Alan Wilton stated “the Fraser Island dingoes are at risk because they are not protected. Currently dingoes seen hanging around tourist-populated areas in Fraser Island, such as campsites, are removed because of concerns for human safety. “
ReplyDeleteSo many experts and conservationist and concerned public have written to many newspapers and the media and still we hear that the dingo population is declining at an alarming rate…. Our iconic pure bred Fraser Island Dingoes which are now in peril of extinction due to the "management" strategy of the Department of Environment who unbelievably ignore an enormous weight of evidence -including Govt autopsies on dingoes, not to mention a recent 7,162 signature petition supporting discontinuation of the present regime. 38,000 tourists invaded Fraser Island last year with more on the way. The dingoes are brutally scourged off the beaches and excluded from their hunting grounds. They are starving which gives them every incentive to approach tourists looking for food, if identified they can be killed by barbiturate injection for "habituating". And these are protected animals officially Vulnerable. Meanwhile the 4WDs pound along the beaches at a REDUCED speed limit of 80k an hour. Tourism rules.
Here is a beautiful quote from Mark Twain ….
“I saw in Australia the wild dog - the dingo. He was a beautiful creature, shapely, graceful, a little wolfish in some of his aspects, but with a most friendly eye and sociable disposition.”