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
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
AUSTRALIA’S Wild Dog Action Plan and the South Australian Government are seeking clarification on how classification and regulatory changes concerning the dingo in Victoria will affect control programs in the state…Read More
Terry Sim, April 5, 2024
GRAIN Producers Australia has called for more research into the potential impacts of red imported fire ants as the pest threatens to spread to broadacre regions…Read More
Sheep Central, March 20, 2024
REMOVAL of the unprotection order on wild dogs in eastern Victoria will be be mayhem for sheep producers, according to Victorian Farmers Federation Livestock Group vice-president and Tallangatta farmer Peter Star…Read More
Terry Sim, March 18, 2024
VICTORIA’S sheep and wool industry will be at risk of more wild dog attacks with recent changes in the state’s dingo ‘unprotection order’ laws, an anti-dingo campaigner believes. The Allan..Read More
Terry Sim, March 15, 2024
WILD dog baits have been dropped across more than 10 million hectares in one of the largest baiting exercises in New South Wales’ Western Division…Read More
Sheep Central, July 23, 2021
SHEEP producers have been urged register on the free pest animal resource FeralScan to help monitor the activity of wild dogs, foxes, rabbits, feral pigs and deer…Read More
Sheep Central, April 19, 2021
