Dingoes are Australia's native dog that prey on livestock and native mammals. They are an issue because they kill sheep, cattle, and cause farms to lose money. Control methods include 1080 baiting, employing doggers to hunt dingoes, and building fences. While effective, baiting poses risks to native animals. Dingoes cost Australian farms an estimated $65 million per year.

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.