NSW will adopt a statewide approach to wild dog management, with individual Local Land Services (LLS) teams sharing their local insights to deliver broader benefits.
Primary Industries Minister Katrina Hodgkinson announced the new management structure at AgQuip today in Gunnedah.
“Wild dogs are a major problem for many of our livestock industries, which is why the cross-regional team leading the wild dog response has been working to clearly define the role that Local Land Services will play,” Ms Hodgkinson said.
The new Local Land Services cross-management team will share local insights to deliver statewide benefits, she said.
“The team has considered the newly launched National Wild Dog Action Plan and will provide recommendations to sharpen the focus of the NSW Wild Dog Strategy to ensure regions adopt a common approach to supporting their local Wild Dog Action Group.
"It's all about sharing information and making sure that we maximise the funding we have been given by the Commonwealth and encouraging groups to get together and share information," Ms Hodgkinson said.
"Say you are down in the Kosciuszko, and you have worked out a wild dog management formula that's really working in your area, but there's also a big problem in Tamworth, (this plan is about) making sure that information gets shared, just in case it might work there as well."
Ms Hodgkinson said the team has recently focused on a strategy to invest the $2.4 million of federal funding for pest eradication, which was delivered as a Commonwealth drought support initiative.
Member for Tamworth Kevin Anderson said his region’s LLS team would invest its slice of funding in targeted programs.
“North West Local Land Services is putting $388,000 of Commonwealth pest management funding to good use, rolling out coordinated aerial shooting and baiting programs targeting both feral pigs and wild dogs.”
