Project :
REGISTERED PESTICIDE PERMIT
SUMMARY
The use of 1080 continues to be the most effective control techniques for feral animals. The use of the product has gone through a shift in social license and there's now considerable angst in some areas of the community over its use.
1080 is a bait product only available to landholders over 25 acres in size or for smaller landholders that combine properties to reach the minimum size creating a coordinated baiting program alongside the PHBG.
Through the RPP provision project the PHBG will promote the safe use of 1080 products in the control of feral animals to landholders within the PHBG operational area. The group will clarify and advertise the application process, provide one on one support to landholders applying for the chemical, provide correctly filled in application forms to DPIRD, subsidise the application fee from DPIRD and reimburse landholders for their 1080 purchases.
SCOPE
IN (i.e. what the PHBG will be doing …)
Promotion of the safe use of 1080 products and how landholders can apply to use them
Provide information on the application process to interested individuals
Provide one on one support to meet the application requirements
Produce the application package to give to DPIRD
Cover the cost of the application fee
Reimburse 1080 purchases for active permits within the PHBG operational area
Information resources
OUT (i.e. what the PHBG will not be doing …)
Bypass the online training required for each application (landholder to finish)
On ground control activities
Purchasing or transporting 1080 products by the PHBG
REPORTING
Media release following workshops
Report in the annual report
GOALS
Increase the number of landholders applying for an RPP
Promote good news stories from landholders using the control products
Increase awareness about the need for increased effective feral animal control products such as 1080
MILESTONES
Spring & Autumn - Social media campaigns
December 16th - Data available for annual report
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Six social media posts during peak feral fox activity times of Autumn and Spring to promote the availability of 1080 as a control method.
Number of landholders applying for a RPP
Media release aimed at Spring lambing produced before end of August
New information flyer developed by April 2022