How do rangers catch the dingoes to give them identity tags?
Sites on Fraser Island are inspected to detect signs of dingo activity and to investigate sightings of untagged dingoes. Priority is given to high-use visitor sites. Dingoes are trapped, mostly at night, with soft-catch traps. The jaws of these traps are off-set and padded with rubber so that trapped dingoes are not injured in the process. The trapped animals are sedated and tagged with an ear tagging tool. Dingoes may also be sedated with darts projected from a blow pipe or a gas-propelled rifle in a free ranging situation.
