A massive aerial baiting program of almost half of NSW is about to get underway as the wild dog problem moves inexorably south.

More than 49,000 baits will be dropped from an aircraft  at more than 500 feet along ridge lines and in inaccessible country from the Queensland border all the way down to Balranald. The baiting runs from October 2-16, with 1080 poison put into red muscle meat and dropped by a specially designed aircraft that has a feeder bin, hired from Charleville. The aerial baiting is done at a rate of 10 baits per kilometre.

The aerial baiting  follows an on-the-ground baiting program over the last few weeks with 87,000 baits put out over about 19 million hectares in the Western Division. The massive operation involves many Local Land Services staff covering large areas from Hungerford through to Wilcannia, Cobar down to Broken Hill and Wentworth.

Overseeing the operations is Western LLS Biosecurity Team Leader Tim Wall, based at Wilcannia. It is one of the biggest and largest pest animal control programs in the world. “We have 20-foot freezer units located in Broken Hill and Cobar. The meat for the northern operations comes out of Dubbo and in the southern area out of Broken Hill. We have five or six people in each location drying the meat and laying the poison.”

Mr Wall said the 1080 baiting was having effects as a small trial back in June with South Australian biosecurity officers along the dog fence produced 20 dead dogs. The LLS also has 17 groups of landholders in the Western Division who work together in baiting programs, which has proved very successful.

“The thing with 1080 is that the results are not often seen as the dogs may not die for a week.Farmers only know because they have fewer attacks and see fewer tracks.” Mr Wall said wild dogs were moving further and further south. “It will be an ongoing problem,” he said.

Landholders near Wanaaring say the dog problem has only got worse in the last six years, and up until then it was “rare to see a wild dog”.

https://www.theland.com.au/story/5656078/western-aerial-baiting-starts-ready-for...

Surely bio sec would be able to create a strain of herpes that kills the dogs....similar to what is happening with carp.

Im at a loss with this.
Sure dick head howard and his gun control freakazoids have taken the very weapons required to kill large quantities in a short time but the animal rights arseholes are up there as well.
They say it is cruel to kill these dogs yet they do not give a thought to the native wildlife the dogs are killing. Truely messed up individuals that have been given to much say in something their tiny brain cannot handle.

We were on dirt bikes. I have whitnessed these packs first hand. 2008/09 was the worste I have ever seen. It was not uncommon to see packs of 50 or more every few hundred meters...especially in the late afternoon. You had to be quick though. They scatter when they eventually see you.
Then to be told that these dogs can have litters up to 10 pups, sometimes more and the survival rate is quite high due to the abundance (at the time) of food, it is no wonder they just multiply.

If we don't act soon this will be catastrophic in regards to native wildlife.
With the article above then the numbers must be up close to that of 2008/09

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Sep 24^th, 2018 at 3:35pm:



Which?
1080 or the herpes?

Dunno. I'm bot a bio security agent.
But if we sit on our hands then these dogs will ruin our wildlife.

Personally I think it is to late. Like the cane toads....they're not going away.