Feral Animal Control-Red Card Red Fox
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See how the Red Card for Red Fox is helping the Flying doctor
Fox Baiting Closer
Red Fox Bait
Foxes removed from landscape
Caring for Our Country Rabbit Control projectThe Caring for Our Country Rabbit Control project aims to reduce rabbit populations to levels that enable declared rare flora (DRF) populations and threatened communities to regenerate. The project will target 320 populations of rare flora and one threatened ecological community located on private property, road reserves, nature reserves and other Crown land. The project includes sites located in the Central Wheatbelt and Great Southern Districts (to view this map click here).
Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) staff will be working with farmers, shires and volunteers and have undertaken the following activities:
• Baited 4,815 ha for rabbits in summer/autumn 2010.
• Warrens fumigated and/or collapsed warrens at four sites.
• Sites have been scoped for installing exclusion fencing around key sites and critical habitat.
• Weed control has been undertaken at 4 sites.
• Monitored rabbit activity at 162 sites.
• Monitored rare flora populations at 139 sites.
• Two new DRF populations and four range extensions have been found, with possibly others yet to be confirmed.
Monthly rabbit control options and calender wheel
Rabbit control is most effective when there is a planned approach and a number of different measures are used. Some methods such as removing harbour (shelter) and fencing can be done year-round however, others such as baiting and warren fumigation are best done at certain times of the year (due to feed availability or the rabbit life cycle stage).
Click here for the monthly rabbit control options and calendar wheel
Effective rabbit control in August and September
August and September are part of the rabbit breeding season and there is typically a high volume of green feed available. Juveniles also begin dispersing from warrens in September. As a result, the most effective control options to undertake during these months are warren fumigation, fencing and harbour reduction.
Interesting Articles on 1080:
http://www.publish.csiro.au/index.cfm?act=view_file&file_id=WR10060.pdf
2010, Eason, Lee Shapiro, Adams, Hix, Cunningham, MacMorran, Statham and Statham "Advancing a humane alternative to sodium fluoroacetate (1080) for wildlife management – welfare and wallaby control', Wildlife Research.
