Maintaining credibility and trust with stakeholders for wild dog management in Australia - GREG MIFSUD
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Maintaining credibility and trust with stakeholders
for wild dog management in Australia
GREG MIFSUD
National Wild Dog Management Coordinator,
Centre for Invasive Species Solutions.
WWW.INVASIVES.COM.AU
Wild Dog Impacts and Management in Australia: The situation in 2007 • Attacks on livestock by wild dogs/dingoes are devastating: • Costs Nationally estimated to be in excess of $120 million • Impacts are felt across the board, economically, emotionally and within rural communities; • Wild dog/dingoes will force you out of your chosen enterprise; • Wild dogs are highly mobile, and move between private and public land; • Trauma similar to that of a war veteran or survivor of a major motor vehicle accident (Ecker et al. 2016), • Conflict between stakeholders at local and state level No Trust or credibility between stakeholders
Generating behaviour change amongst stakeholder's involved in wild dog management Ultimately this is what the national project is about!!! Behaviour change was required across all stakeholder groups. Developing relationships and trust; Consistency in the national facilitator role.
The role of trust and credibility in adoption of
the national approach to wild dog management
• National Approach to Wild Dog Management Implemented 2007
• Nil Tenure Planning approach provided platform to re-engage with stakeholders;
• Industry backing required but still no trust!
• National Wild Dog Management Advisory Group Formed 2009
• Group included landholders impacted by wild dogs and state government staff
• Held meetings in regional locations experiencing wild dog impacts
• Members became Industry Champions promoting the Approach
• Industry Support opened the door for engagement at the local level.
Re-engaging with landholders through adoption and acceptance of best practice management “ I used to catch over a hundred dogs a year but, these days I catch as few as 25 dogs, alongside contributing to the baiting program and that is keeping wild dog numbers under control,” Comment from Victorian Government Wild dog controller • Opportunity to re-engage community and government staff • Stakeholder had to agree to changes in management • Increased scrutiny on control measures by broader society; • Delivery of agreed best practice and humane destruction necessary; • Educate stakeholders of the risk to ongoing access to control techniques.
Working together to regain control of the issue
at the local community level.
• ABARES Study, Ecker et al. 2015 Self rating of group effectiveness
• 35 Groups interviewed
• Improved communication between all parties Low
6%
• Greater support and no longer felt isolated
• Social issues were Bigger than just wild dogs
Medium
27%
High
67%
Face to Face engagement is essential at the
community/local group scale
“We decided we had to do something not just talk about it. Once we started
doing things members got proud”
• Coordinator and facilitator support was seen as critical;
• Facilitator's broker agreement and manage conflict between
stakeholders;
• Create a space where everyone has a say in the outcome;
• AWI investment in 7 Regional Wild Dog Coordinators across the country
Industry Taking Ownership of the issue Nationally • Took 12 months to develop but; 7 years in the making!!!!! • Represents a huge shift in cultural thinking and behaviour of all the stakeholders involved; • Truly Collaborative in its development and delivery! • Social license is easier to maintain when stakeholder's have common objectives and an agreed approach to manage an issue
Changing the perspective in the media to obtain
social license with the broader community
“No more photos of dead dogs in Trees, Please”
NT cattle industry reports reduction in wild dog
• Focus on the people Not the Dogs attacks following better access to 1080 poison
NT Country Hour By Nathan Coates
• Focus on the solution not the problem 10 August 2016
• More reporting of positive stories
• Better inform the public to maintain social
licence. Shared plan needed to halt wild
dogs RUTH CASKEY 19 Oct 2016
Where to from here:
• Action plan term ceases in 2019
Demand Wool Producers Aust Deliver a Fair
• Need to commence review and consultation with stakeholder
Unbiased Wild Dog Action Plan that Doesn't Vilify
• Ongoing support of Facilitator networks and local groups
Dingoes
• Continue to work toward achieving social license with broader
community
by: Dingo Tom
target: Michele Jackson, WoolProducers Australia Project Consultant
Dingoes could be used to control fox numbers
It continues unjust vilification against the Dingo, despite scientific evidence to the
and Pure
contrary. prevent ecological
dingoes generally decline
do not prey upon sheep when left in stable hierarchically
intact structured packs. Domestic dogs gone wild and foxes are the cause of livestock
By Bridget Fitzgerald
• Posted 26 May 2017 at 5:29 pm Ecologists have suggested dingoes could be used to control red foxes in Australia.
predation.
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help reduce fox numbers problem.
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Australian environment.
Dingoes could fight feral fox and cat
problem
23 May 2017Acknowledgements
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