Wild dog impacts
Wild dogs threaten Australia’s livestock industries and put our precious native species at risk.
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The National Wild Dog Action Plan (the Plan) is a nationally agreed framework that promotes and supports a strategic and risk-based approach to wild dog management; emphasising humane, safe and effective management techniques and appropriate scales for mitigating the impacts of wild dogs.
What the Plan does
The goals of the Plan are to provide leadership and coordination for the ongoing management of wild dogs, to increase community awareness and understanding of the issue, and to build capacity amongst stakeholders to adopt and implement best practice wild dog management.
The Plan promotes national consistency with the principles of safe, efficient and humane best practice wild dog management, which supports continuing economic activity while being socially responsible and environmentally sustainable. It also acknowledges that animal welfare and the use of humane control methods are
fundamental considerations in all management actions, irrespective of the nature or scale of land tenure in which management actions are being taken.
The Plan endorses the use of current best practice management techniques for the control of wild dogs through coordinated, strategic community led management programs. The Plan also seeks to improve these practices through research and development while encouraging adoption of best practice humane wild dog management through ongoing engagement, extension and training.
