FREE fox baits are being offered in New South Wales’s Northern Tablelands region for the first time in an effort to boost landholder participation in a control program this month…Read More
Sheep Central, June 17, 2024
LEADING wild dog control proponent Geoff Power has urged the reinstatement of the dingo unprotection order in north-west Victoria after a national taxonomy body declared Australia’s dingoes are considered a breed of dog…Read More
NORTH-WEST Victorian sheep producers believe dingo attacks on livestock are increasing as the State Government starts to organise meetings with landowners…Read More
Terry Sim, May 27, 2024
A NEW welfare-positive lethal trap device to improve wild dog and fox control has been launched…Read More
Sheep Central, May 20, 2024
A NATIONAL strategy to fight rabbits with a pipeline of existing and new biocontrol agents has been released…Read More
Sheep Central, May 15, 2024
A NORTH-WEST Victorian sheep producer has been denied a permit to control a dingo attacking his sheep despite the State Government conceding “on the balance of probability” that dingoes have killed his livestock…Read More
Terry Sim, May 6, 2024
A SENATE report on the eradication efforts targeting fire ants in south-east Queensland has highlighted a severe and concerning lack of transparency from the primary organisation responsible for administering the program aimed at halting the spread of this destructive pest…Read More
Emma Alsop, April 22, 2024
VICTORIA’S peak farmer body has urged north-west livestock producers to report all wild dog interactions as it seeks government commitments to avoid further attacks on sheep and cattle after the lifting of a dingo ‘unprotection’ order in the region…Read More
Sheep Central, April 18, 2024
A NORTH-WEST Victorian sheep producer has been told he must convince authorities a wild dog or dingo attacked his sheep and that he has implemented all reasonable and effective non-lethal..Read More
Terry Sim, April 15, 2024
THE Victorian Government has delayed a north-west sheep producer’s wildlife control permit application while it awaits photographic evidence that dingoes or wild dogs are responsible for killing sheep on his property…Read More
Terry Sim, April 12, 2024
REMOVAL of north-west Victoria’s livestock protection order against wild dogs has sparked action by South Australian livestock producers concerned about the likelihood of increased dog attacks in South Australia…Read More
Terry Sim, April 10, 2024
A NORTH-WEST Victorian farmer whose sheep have been killed by wild dogs or dingoes has been unable to obtain a control permit and told to store mauled ewes in his freezer for DNA testing, Sheep Central has been told…Read More
Terry Sim, April 8, 2024