Discovery that most canids in Australia are not hybrids with wild dogs leads researchers to push to change policy and terminology
and that dingo-dog hybridisation is rare. Dingoes are classified as native species in all jurisdictions on the Australian mainland.
The letter to the NSW government details “extensive lethal control activities including aerial baiting, ground baiting, aerial shooting, ground shooting and trapping being carried out across national parks and conservation areas for the management of ‘wild dogs’”. “The terminology ‘wild dogs’ has been adopted because of concern that there’s a lot of hybridisation going on in populations,” she said. “But the science is now saying: we don’t actually have that many of those mixed animals, there are basically no feral dogs and there are very few hybrids that have very little dingo ancestry.
“We need to change the terminology so that it’s clear and transparent what animals are being targeted for lethal control in different areas, and also so that we can have a more open discussion about how we’re going to balance the protection of a native species [with] managing them in places where they may be causing issues for agriculture.”
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