Gembrook, Noojee and Erica dingo predation management zone

Work plan 2026–27

Map of the Gembrook, Noojee and Erica Dingo Predation Management Zone for 2026–2027

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Legend

A polygon with an inward fading blue highlight around its border.Dingo Predation Management Zone (DPMZ)

2025-2026 Dingo Predation Management

A dark purple line with rounded ends with a dark outline.Targeted Ground Baiting. May also be trapped in response to dingo incident reports

A light pink line with rounded ends with a dark outline.May be trapped in response to dingo incident reports

A polygon with a green border and evenly separated vertical and horizontal gray lines.Off track ground baiting and trapping area

A polygon with a green border and evenly separated, x-shaped, diagonal gray lines.Off track trapping area

Community Vertebrate Species Control (CVSC)

A polygon with an inward fading brown highlight around its border.CVSP group

A black solid line with evenly recurring short lines coming off at a 90 degree angle.Dingo exclusion fence

Public Land

A polygon in light green, similar to a soft pastel shade.Park and reserve

A light yellow polygon.State forest

A polygon in a medium-tone green.Plantation

A light gray polygon.Other public land

A polygon with evenly spaced diagonal light blue and white stripes.Port and coastal facility

A polygon with light blue, similar to a soft pastel shade.Marine park or reserve

A polygon in a medium-tone blue.Water body

A polygon with evenly spaced criss-crossing diagonal orange lines.3km Livestock Protection Buffer (LPB)

Details

Localities within the Gembrook, Noojee and Erica dingo predation management zone include:

  • Aberfeldy
  • Ada
  • Amor
  • Avonsleigh
  • Badger Creek
  • Baw Baw
  • Beenak
  • Big Pats Creek
  • Boola
  • Buln Buln East
  • Cambarville
  • Caringal
  • Cockatoo
  • Coldstream
  • Coopers Creek
  • Don Valley
  • East Warburton
  • Erica
  • Fernshaw
  • Fumina
  • Fumina South
  • Garfield North
  • Gembrook
  • Gentle Annie
  • Gilderoy
  • Gladysdale
  • Glengarry
  • Glengarry North
  • Glengarry West
  • Gruyere
  • Healesville
  • Hill End
  • Hoddles Creek
  • Icy Creek
  • Jacob Creek
  • Jericho
  • Jindivick
  • Labertouche
  • Launching Place
  • Loch Valley
  • Maryknoll
  • Marysville
  • McMahons Creek
  • Millgrove
  • Moondarra
  • Mount Burnett
  • Mount Toolebewong
  • Nangana
  • Nar Nar Goon North
  • Narbethong
  • Nayook
  • Neerim
  • Neerim East
  • Neerim Junction
  • Neerim North
  • Neerim South
  • Noojee
  • Pakenham Upper
  • Piedmont
  • Powelltown
  • Rawson
  • Reefton
  • Seville
  • Seville East
  • Shady Creek
  • Tanjil
  • Tanjil Bren
  • Tanjil South
  • Thalloo
  • Thomson (Mount Baw Baw)
  • Three Bridges
  • Tonimbuk
  • Toolangi
  • Toombon
  • Toongabbie
  • Toorongo
  • Trafalgar
  • Tyers
  • Tynong North
  • Vesper
  • Walhalla
  • Warburton
  • Wesburn
  • Willow Grove
  • Woori Yallock
  • Yallourn North
  • Yarra Junction
  • Yellingbo

Trapping activities in response to dingo related incident reports can be undertaken on the majority of tracks on public land within 3 km of the private land and public land interface surrounding the above mentioned localities.

Targeted ground-baiting transects are located on public land:

  • east of Gembrook
  • north and north-east of Tonimbuk
  • east of Willow Grove
  • south-west of Erica
  • west of Toongabbie

The map shows within the Gembrook, Noojee and Erica dingo predation management zone there is 287,020 hectares of public land, 155,024 hectares of land under the 3 km livestock protection buffer and 89,717 hectares of private land.

If you would like to receive this information in an accessible format, please phone 136 186, email customer.service@deeca.vic.gov.au, or via the Access Hub.

Page last updated: 30 Jul 2026