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
RECENT research suggesting coat colour cannot be used to distinguish dingoes from wild dogs would not affect current wild dog management programs, according to national wild dog facilitator Greg Mifsud…Read More
WOOL brokers have cited the demise of the Queensland wool industry in a submission of support for growers fighting a draft proposal to reintroduce dingoes in parts of south-west Victoria…Read More
Sheep Central, February 15, 2021
VICTORIAN farmers have welcomed the first processing of kangaroos for human consumption in the state this week after the annual harvesting quota was boosted to manage a population increase…Read More
Terry Sim, February 5, 2021
VICTORIA is on locust alert after a number of sightings of the pest were reported in the west and north-west of the state this month…Read More
Sheep Central, November 23, 2020
CAMERAS will monitor wild dog activity along Western Australia’s State Barrier Fence Esperance Extension with the help of a $77,000 grant from the Sheep and Goat Industry Funding Scheme…Read More
Sheep Central, October 5, 2020
AUSTRALIA’S National Wild Dog Action Plan has returned a cost-benefit ratio of between 6:1 and 16.5:1 for each dollar invested, stakeholders were told during the launch of the latest 2020-30 updated action plan today…Read More
Sheep Central, June 29, 2020
AERIAL baiting of wild dogs at an optimum delivery rate of 40 1080 baits per kilometre has been shown to eliminate more than 90 percent of wild dogs in the baited areas in north-east New South Wales, according to research recently published…Read More
Sheep Central, May 20, 2020
WESTERN New South Wales landholders have joined forces to bait against wild dogs by air and on the ground over more than 7.5 million hectares…Read More
Sheep Central, May 18, 2020
POTENTIAL sightings of plague locusts in the Cobar and Nyngan areas of New South Wales have prompted a warning from Western Local Land Services…Read More
Sheep Central, April 27, 2020
COLLABORATIVE wild dog and fox management strategies and the latest control tools will be outlined in a webinar/phone seminar next week…Read More
Sheep Central, February 28, 2020
WILD dog and pest control in Victoria will be boosted by more than $840,000 in funding over the next three years from Australian Wool Innovation..Read More
Sheep Central, February 26, 2020