Culturally and ecologically significant, advocates say the native animals have been 'demonised and persecuted' since colonisation.
To Bandjalang people Maitland and Harry Wilson the dingo is boss. "They control the balance ... the king of all kings," Harry said. But dingoes are the only native mammal in NSW specifically excluded from protection. They are also not protected in the ACT or South Australia.
Alix Livingstone from Defend the Wild said, while there are variations between states and territories, largely across the country dingoes are managed through poison baiting, trapping and shooting. “There's also traps laced with poison, and then in some states, there's even a bounty for every dingo pelt submitted by hunters, so actually incentivising the hunting of dingoes,” she said.
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