“When I’m driving along and I see a dingo I pull over, because it’s an honour to see that’s one of my ancestors there. “As an Aboriginal person, we see them as our family,” she said. When Takau sees dingoes hung up on trees “my heart breaks”. Since the arrival of the dingo in Australia 4000 years ago, wild dogs have been a part of the Australian landscape. The meaning of DINGO is a wild dog (Canis dingo) of Australia having a tan or reddish coat that is often considered a subspecies (C. Takau last year created Dingo Culture, a First Nations initiative to protect the culturally significant totem species. In a bid to change public perception, Emmott was one of the creators of a lobby group, Landholders for Dingoes, established two years ago to spread and normalise their message. But the way we’ve always done it isn’t working,” Emmott said. “People cop a lot of flack, they wouldn’t be game to go down to the pub if they admitted they’re not killing dingoes, because there’s a lot of peer group pressure to conform to the way we’ve always done. However, he says public perception in the outback remains a problem. He believes the use of poisons, such as the common 1080 bait, only make the dingo problem worse as they destroy the animals’ natural hierarchal structure.īy killing the alpha male and females, Emmott believes it makes young dingoes more likely to harm livestock, “a bit like a mob of teenagers gathering down at the beach and creating mayhem and havoc”. On Monday, Australia’s minister for the environment, Sussan Ley, and the minister for agriculture, David Littleproud, announced $800,000 to extend the national feral animal coordinators program to June 2023, including the National Wild Dog Management Coordinator project, in partnership with Australian Wool Innovation.Ī dingo in Winton, Western Queensland, Australia Photograph: Angus Emmott The plan, a livestock industry-driven initiative, provides a framework for landholders to participate in a range of control measures “emphasising humane, safe and effective management techniques”.Ī spokesperson from the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions told Guardian Australia it provides wild dog best-practice management information to land managers that is “underpinned by scientific evidence,” including “trapping, ground shooting, ground baiting, aerial baiting, canid pest ejectors, exclusion and cluster fencing and guardian animals”. The government-endorsed National Wild Dog Action Plan defines wild dogs as “all wild-living dogs, which include: dingoes, feral dogs and their hybrids.” While scientific, Indigenous and agricultural knowledge are increasingly converging towards the need to protect dingoes for their ecological and cultural value, Cairns says the dogs’ slaughter comes down to a matter of wording.
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