Deconstructing Dingo Management on Fraser Island, Queensland: The Significance of Social Constructionism for Effective Wildlife Management

Hytten, Karen F.; Burns, Georgette Leah

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“…Nor do they regularly seriously injure people more generally. In fact, large numbers of encounters, which are probably benign or positive in nature, go unreported (Burns and Howard 2003;Hytten and Burns 2007). This represents a clear conundrum in relation to managing conflict on the island, because the risk dingoes appear to pose to human safety is both almost always nominal, yet, in extreme cases, also potentially catastrophic.…”

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“…Destructions had risen to 110 dingoes by the end of 2012 (Allen et al 2015). The conservation importance of the Fraser Island dingo has been widely recognised (Corbett 2001;Burns and Howard 2003;Hytten and Burns 2007;DEHP 2013;Allen et al 2015;Smith and Appleby 2015;O'Neill et al 2017); however, ongoing serious incidents, and a shortage of viable management alternatives, has meant that lethal control remains a management mainstay.…”

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Human–dingo interactions on Fraser Island: an analysis of serious incident reports

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Wild predators that attack people represent a significant challenge to the management authorities charged with conserving populations whilst minimising human safety risk. Fraser Island is home to an iconic population of dingoes (Canis dingo). However, conflict stemming from negative human–dingo interactions (incidents), some resulting in serious human injury and in one case, a fatality, is an ongoing concern. In an effort to highlight important factors influencing incident dynamics, we investigated the most serious incident reports gathered by the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service for the period 2001–15. We found a consistent pattern of incidents peaking in March/April and also July, corresponding with dingo breeding and whelping seasons (respectively). Monthly vehicle permit numbers (a proxy for visitation) were not positively correlated with incident rates, except during the breeding season. Male dingoes, particularly subadult males, featured heavily in incidents. Despite the fatality being highly publicised and the advent of copious on-site warning messages and other management interventions, serious incidents continue to occur annually, including some involving children. This suggests that risks are either not always understood, or are otherwise being ignored. While our results demonstrate that dingoes generally pose minimal risk to humans, some risk remains, particularly where poorly supervised children are concerned.

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A missed opportunity: understanding community stakeholders' perspectives

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2011

Australasian Journal of Environmental Management

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Resource companies are moving increasingly toward transformational engagement with their community stakeholders, where they have joint learning and sense-making of the issues. A key antecedent to successful engagement at this level is ensuring that the company has an understanding of the perspectives of the community stakeholders and the meaning behind statements made by them. In this paper, we present a three-step meanings-based analysis technique that can help companies better understand their community stakeholders' perspective in the initial stage of the engagement process. We describe each step and demonstrate the application to public submissions about the Nevis River in New Zealand, and explain how they differ from conventional issue or stakeholder analysis. The first step is to generate text sufficiently rich that it can be analysed for meaning. The other two steps of the analysis are to generate a set of statements used by stakeholders to describe their sense of the issue and then to identify the positions that stakeholders adopt in relation to the issue. Applying the technique can enhance understanding of community stakeholders' perspectives and move a resource company toward transformational engagement.

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Implicating animals: the symbolic power of scapegoating animals in marine pollution debates

Grant-Smith

2015

Australasian Journal of Environmental Management

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Deconstructing Dingo Management on Fraser Island, Queensland: The Significance of Social Constructionism for Effective Wildlife Management

Cited by 7 publications

References 7 publications

Human–dingo interactions on Fraser Island: an analysis of serious incident reports

Human–dingo interactions on Fraser Island: an analysis of serious incident reports

A missed opportunity: understanding community stakeholders' perspectives

Implicating animals: the symbolic power of scapegoating animals in marine pollution debates

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