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Wiluna group wants dog bounty
23 Apr 2004
Wiluna pastoralists will push for a wild dog bounty, despite a lukewarm response to a similar trial around Laverton. Co-ordinator of the Wiluna Declared Animal Group, Tanya Lupton, said many landowners support a bounty and believe Wiluna is a more logical area, as it has a higher number of sheep and dog attacks. Mrs Lupton will ask the Wiluna Share Council to support the plan. The Wiluna DAG is one of six Goldfields-area groups and received only $100 in funding from the shire council, while others had received up to $40,000 from shires, the Department of Conservation & Land Management and the Agricultural Protection Board.
WA Agriculture Minister Kim Chance said he would support the Wiluna bounty plan. He denied claims from some pastoralists that the Laverton bounty was a failure and said 58 dogs have been collected, which is much better than in some other areas of WA.
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