Broad-scale, coordinated fox control has occurred on southern Yorke
Peninsula since the early 2000s as part of the Baiting for
Biodiversity program. This federally-funded initiative provided
landholders with free 1080 poisoned meat baits to ensure a
landscape-scale approach to predator control.
It was a critical
factor in the success of the reintroduction of the Tammar Wallaby to
Dhilba Guuranda-Innes National Park in 2004 and continues today.
Predator control in the project area also includes the management of
feral cats via baiting, shooting and trapping.
Already, the area
has seen the results of these baiting programs through regular counts
of Hooded Plovers, Malleefowl and Goannas. Farmers have also reported
increases in lambing percentages following fox baiting activity.
In 2019 and 2020,
a 25-kilometre predator control fence was erected to support these
control efforts. The fence is designed to prevent the migration of
foxes and cats from north of the peninsula into the project area.
