Whats with the $10 dollar bounty per dingo kill in Australia? There’s a huge, something like 5,000 km fence that closes off dingoes and rabbits from sheep grazing grounds. I’m not an Australian shepard but how bad can the problem be that the government is paying people to kill these dogs, usually in very inhumane ways.
I’m not an Australian, nor do I play one on TV, but my WAG would be that the fence doesn’t work, not 100%.
Heck, I’ve got an 18 lb. beagle who can dig under a fence.
Australia has many problems with animals once imported into their country. Domesticated cats and dogs have become ferril and are compeating for prey so effectively that they are hurting the ecosystem. I would guess this is why the bounty exists.
Where did you learn this from?
As an Australain, this is completely new to me. To the best of my knowledge, dingoes are a protected species, and a permit is required before any killing is allowed. As for a bounty, the only animals that I am aware of that attract a bounty are introduced feral animals, and even then, no more than a handful of species.
Pure-bred dingoes are protected but most “dingoes” in Australia are apparently hybrids between the original population of dingoes (probably brought to Australia by the Aborigines) and feral domesticated dogs brough by Europeans. Queensland has recently abolished their $10 bounty because of suspicions that ranchers were breeding dingoes for the bounty money. http://www.premiers.qld.gov.au/geninfo/qldtoday/050399/050399.htm
Maybe the problem has more to do with a lack of awareness than anything else. I saw a few dingo traps on the “Croc Hunter” show and they’re just evil, not to mention the rabbit fence is littered with dingo corpses that have been scalped, you need to bring the scalp in for the reward. Its pretty inexcusable for a developed nation to be controling animal populations in such an inhumane way.