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Massive taxpayer outlay to kill ‘wild dogs’ for graziers not justified by government data on benefits. Non-lethal solutions?

EACH SPRING AND autumn, farmer Mitchell Clapham used to traverse the 1,000 hectares of his property to set about 3 kilometres of poison bait for wild dogs.

Until he erected an exclusion fence around his property at Ilford, 220 kilometres north-west of Sydney, about 18 months ago, he had been setting baits for 10 years.

“It took me at best half the day just to go out to the periphery and set them, after having spent another half a day organising the meat and getting the ranger out to lace it,” Mr Clapham said.

“We haven’t had any attacks since we got the fence.”

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By Hannah Jose, ABC News

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