Dingo plan needs long-term funding

By Lousie McBride
Updated December 30 2015 - 2:54pm, first published March 17 2011 - 9:42am
DINGO THREAT: Member for Stuart Dan van Holst Pellekaan took this photo of a dingo just 50 kilometres north of Port Augusta, more than 300km inside the dog fence. He says there have been confirmed evidence of dingoes on more than 60pc cent of pastoral properties inside the fence.
DINGO THREAT: Member for Stuart Dan van Holst Pellekaan took this photo of a dingo just 50 kilometres north of Port Augusta, more than 300km inside the dog fence. He says there have been confirmed evidence of dingoes on more than 60pc cent of pastoral properties inside the fence.

DESPITE an additional $25,000 earmarked for the landholder-initiated Biteback program to boost dingo control measures south of the dog fence, pastoralists say they need a long-term funding commitment.

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