Dingo petition
Sue Brooks May 31st, 2009
While I’m not sure that feeding the dingo’s on Fraser Island will solve the ‘problem’ I certainly believe that killing the dogs should stop. This petition closes tomorrow but I think it worth signing if you can.
http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/EPetitions_qld/CurrentEPetition.aspx?PetNum=1229
Also I urge interested people to make the effort to send in a simple statement about the review of the dingo management plan. Time is also short for this to be done also.
Fraser Coast residents initially had until close of business tomorrow but DERM has extended the submission cut-off until Friday June 5.
Submissions can be sent to dingo.management@epa.qld.gov.au.
The current strategy is at www.epa.qld.gov.au.
Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service will examine the submissions and pass the findings on to Laurie Corbett for consideration as part of the audit. I also believe that more people than Laurie Corbet who originally was consulted to develop the Dingo Strategy, need to be involved in the review to ensure the review is based on current research. I wonder when last Laurie carried out research on the island?
I am concerned that the dingo strategy is not based on current research and I am concerned that ‘feeding the dingos’ is thought to be the reason that dingo’s ‘attack’ people. The issue is a complex one but the focus of the Parks and Wildlife staff during the past few years has been primarily geared towards stopping people feeding these animals. Firstly this aim is impossible to properly police and enforce as people being people mean that either intentionally or not, the dingo still sees humans as a potential supplier of food.
I do believe it is time for further study and I also wish to see hazing and shooting of the dogs stopped and much more stringent safety training being given to visitors to the island. I’m not aware of any ‘locals’ having experienced any problems with the dogs but visitors to Fraser Island must be made aware that they are entering an environment where a predator lives.
- Fraser Island
- Comments(2)
Well said Sue. But I also firmly believe there is a massive problem with the QPWS rangers and their attitude to dingoes.
They obviously have no concept about conservation and the vital role the dingo has played on Fraser Island over the last 100 or 1000 years.
At present there is no other word that describes what these rangers are doing. They are torturing the dingoes and so are some of those so called researchers who have been there very recently.
There are many other people other than Laurie Corbett who are qualified to offer sensible suggestions to Fraser Island Dingo Management and hopefully they will be involved in the new submissions.
I have recently been approved by DPFI Biosecurity to have a private Dingo Sanctuary here in Qld of pure dingoes.
It is a very positive move to recognising the importance of this endangered dingo and will go a long way in the process of preserving and saving
this very wonderful, intelligent, spiritual and playful animal.
I was once told by Bruce Jacob ( Chewton Dingo farm in Vic ) that a dingo was like a monkey in a dog suit.
I have spent 14 years living with dingoes and they are very cheeky and affectionate.
Hopefully your input will bring about some positive moves in the right direction.
Hooroo
Dingosimon
Sue,
The Dingos are only one aspect of the fraser Island problem.
Why do we always look at things in isolation?
Fraser Island has a world heritage listing, but I don’t know why,
the island today is little like the island I visited in the ’80’s.
The whole situation regarding the island and it’s survival needs
to be looked at, not just the Dingos.
But no, just slap another band-aid on the island and squeeze a
fwe more dollars out of it. Give it another twenty years of
current explotation and we’ll have to pay people to go there.
Sadman