A Living with Wildlife approach
The department is responsible for regulating the management of wildlife in accordance with the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972. We encourage you to take a Living with Wildlife approach when addressing the detrimental effects native animals can have on your property.
We provide technical advice to people with a wildlife problem and advocate the use of non-lethal methods to reduce damage. However, the department may grant a permit to destroy wildlife where wildlife is causing, or is likely to cause, damage to the environment, crops, stock or property, or poses a health and safety risk.
Examples of wildlife management tools
Non lethal management | Lethal management |
the use of firearms to scare animals | the use of firearms to destroy some animals |
use of gas guns, or other commercial scaring devices to scare animals | trapping and carbon dioxide narcosis of animals |
modifying habitat or removing resources | egg oiling, egg pricking and egg breaking |
placement of nest boxes in trees to provide refuge for hollow-dependent animals | |
create alternate roosting sites for displaced species | |
create alternative fencing or gates for wildlife | |
netting high value crops | |
planting decoy crops | |
tree collaring |
