Current wild dog management in NSW aims to protect Dingoes in
their core habitat areas. But, as the Regulatory Review
Committee of the NSW Parliament has noted, “it is however
anomalous that the main NSW initiative to conserve existing
Dingo populations is being undertaken under an Act that will
classify them, statewide, as a pest requiring eradication.” This
intended protection program will be through plans developed by
Rural Lands Protection Boards that are concerned with stock
losses, not Dingo conservation. Aggressive eradication of wild
dogs and tokenistic conservation efforts are not going to
reverse the extinction of the Dingo, which is primarily caused
by interbreeding with feral dogs. Meanwhile, the NSW National
Parks and Wildlife Service is conducting lethal experiments on
endangered Quolls in the wilderness areas of Kosciuszko to
justify its wild dog management to farmer critics and is
preparing environmental studies to support its aerial 1080
poison baiting programs in the parks of northern NSW. I