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"Traditional owners and dingo advocates say a Victorian government decision
extending the right to kill dingoes on private and public land until 2028 could
threaten local populations with extinction.
A government order, which took effect on Tuesday, declared dingoes were
“unprotected wildlife” under the state’s Wildlife Act. The ruling means dingoes
can be killed by trapping, poisoning or shooting across large parts of eastern
Victoria, despite being listed as threatened under the state’s Flora and Fauna
Guarantee Act.
The same order protected dingoes in Victoria’s north-west, where as few as 40
animals remained, and was accompanied by the removal of a bounty for killing
the animals.
Melinda Browning, director of the Australian Dingo Foundation, said the
decision could send alpine dingoes on to an “extinction trajectory”. She said
at least 468 dingoes were trapped and shot by government controllers last year
out of an estimated population of 2,640 to 8,800 animals in eastern Victoria.
She questioned the justification for the decision, given livestock losses were
“minuscule” (estimated at 0.009% of the sheep population), but said dingo
protection advocates were mostly shut out of the government’s 12-month review
leading up to the decision."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
