Five years after the devastating 2019 Black Summer bushfires, Steve Haslam, owner of Tenterfield’s Quoll Headquarters, is now seeing the return of native species to his acclaimed wildlife sanctuary. The fires’ widespread destruction of large tree hollows—a crucial animal habitat used for refuge, safety, roosting and breeding—would prevent wildlife from...
Agriculture is essential to produce food and fibre. Extensive livestock grazing occurs across Australia, often in areas where dingoes live. Within these shared landscapes tensions can occur between grazing communities and predatory wildlife such as dingoes. One concern for graziers is how to keep livestock safe in an economically and environmentally viable way. To mitigate losses, many local dingo management plans aim to reduce or exterminate dingoes, yet this has detrimental ecological and social costs and can be counterproductive as a mitigation measure.
This guide aims to increase producers’ skills, knowledge and confidence to adopt tools and practices that are part of a wider movement towards sustainable and high welfare animal agriculture.
