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- 2. The Environmental Issue Dingoes • Australian's only native dog. • A pure-bred adult dingo, standing more than 60cm high and weighing about 15kg, is slightly smaller than a German shepherd. • Their main meals are Australia's small native mammals, but they also eat farm stock (sheep and cattle). • They hunt at night on their own. • Dingoes don’t bark, they howl. I drew this!
- 3. Where the issue is occurring. • Dingoes are mainly found in the outback • There are many dingoes found where I live that is why I have chosen this issue. I live here!!
- 4. I interviewed my neighbour who is a Dingo expert to find out some useful information!
- 5. They kill Livestock. They can be a Why are danger to Cost farms lots of money Dingos people (attack, an issue? disease etc.) They kill native mammals
- 6. What impact are Dingoes having? Killing livestock Danger to people • Wool growers identified Wild • Dingos can be known to attack Dogs as their biggest threat people. • They like to eat sheep and calves. Name, age Date Location, comments 4 year old April Fraser Island, female 2007 severely bitten. Waddy Point on April Fraser Island, 9 year old male 2001 attacked and killed by two dingoes. Ayers Rock (Uluru), Official verdict of Azaria August death is "unknown", Chamberlain 2 1980 but the parents month old believe a dingo was responsible.
- 7. They kill native Cost farms lots of mammals money • They have made the Tasmanian • It was found that it costs farmers tiger extinct $65 million a year from loss of stock. Here is a Tasmanian tiger • It costs money to employ people, that was made to bait, hunt and build fences to extinct 3500 keep dingoes away from livestock. years ago!
- 8. What can/is being done about the issue? 1080 baiting. Employing doggers. They put poison in They hunt the meat. dingoes Building fences. To stop dingoes killing stock.
- 9. 1080 Baiting – Employing Building This is when meat Doggers – fences– is poisoned and it is Farmers employ Fences are built to planted for dingoes people to kill keep out dingos to eat. This kills Dingos. They use from stock. They them but its dogs, guns and must be very high dangerous for traps with dead roo and made from native animals. etc. wire and wood/steel pickets.
- 10. What impact is this having? It costs $5.4 million a year to control dingoes 1080 baiting is the best way to control this issue because it is the most cost effective control and the most practical
- 11. Conclusion • On the Property I live on (Terrick Terrick) we sometimes find Dingoes. • I have learned that we could build a high fence or use 1080 baiting to stop dingoes attacking stock especially our calves.