A wild-dog trapper has been engaged to capture a wild dog believed responsible for killing a number of wallabies in Arakwal National Park and Cape Byron State Conservation Area.
The trapper will be using soft-jaw traps in an effort to capture the elusive dog. Trapping begins today (Wednesday) and is expected to finish on 16 December, or earlier if the dog is caught.
The National Parks and Wildlife Service has engaged the trapper after earlier attempts to capture the dog with cage traps and baits failed.
An NPWS spokesperson said people were reminded to comply with any signage in the park regarding the wild dog control program.
‘Neighbours and visitors should take measures to ensure that domestic animals do not roam into national parks,’ the spokesperson said.
‘If domestic animals are caught in traps they will be taken to the Byron Shire Council pound.
‘People are reminded that dogs are not permitted within National Parks and dog owners will be issued with a $300 fine. ‘
To report a wild dog in Arakwal National Park call the Byron Coast Area Office on 02 6620 9300.
To report a wild dog on private property (rural/urban lands) you can report it to the North Coast Local Land Services on 02 6623 3900.
A good reason for all dog owners to be responsible, obey the NSW Companion Animals Act and keep their dogs ona leash held by a responsible person when in public places.
This most probably is a dingo. Leave it alone. Stop calling dingoes, canis dingo, wild dog, canis familiaris. It is killing its natural food, not touching livestock. If you kill this animal, there may be an abundance of wallabies and them the wallabies will be culled.
Does this trapper know the difference between dingoes and dogs that have gone wild from irresponsible pet ownership?
Leave dingoes be, they are native fauna.
dingoes are not native Australian animals , they are not marsupials. dingoes are Asiatic wolves and were introduced to Australia.
It looks like a sable coloured dingo to me. Yes pure dingoes can be many colours including white, tan with white markings, sable and black with tan markings. Dingoes are Australia’s native apex land predator. Killing dingoes results in total collapse of ecosytems. Taking out dingoes at the top of the food chain results in massive species loss of small mammals at the bottom of the food chain. Dingoes are top order predators responsible for suppressing numbers of wallabies and kangaroos is part of the natural order. Humans need to stop trying to control natural order and leave dingoes alone. Our small mammals rely on dingoes for their survival and to suppress introduced meso predators, such as foxes and cats as well as suppress numbers of larger herbivores to ensure adequate vegetation cover for small mammals, marsupials, reptiles, birds etc.
I agree with Harry and what looks to be a lone dingo, is only eating its natural prey. Not touching domestic livestock. Soon they will be complaining that there are too many wallabies!
Looks like a German Shepherd to me.
I have recently written a book about a dingo reared by an elderly Aborigine in the outback. He returns to the wild and is hunted after attacking sheep. He is black and extremely clever. I did a lot of research and discovered the methods used in the war against wild dogs and dingoes are to say the least cruel