Licola, Heyfield and Maffra dingo predation management zone

Work plan 2026–27

Map of the Licola, Heyfield and Maffra 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 Licola, Heyfield and Maffra dingo predation management zone include:

  • Arbuckle
  • Boisdale
  • Briagolong
  • Budgee Budgee
  • Buragwonduc
  • Bushy Park
  • Coongulla
  • Cowwarr
  • Crookayan
  • Dawson
  • Gillum
  • Glenfalloch
  • Glenmaggie
  • Heyfield
  • Koorool
  • Licola
  • Licola North
  • Maffra West Upper
  • Monomak
  • Moroka
  • Mount Buller
  • Nap Nap Marra
  • Newry
  • Reynard
  • Sargood
  • Seaton
  • Tamboritha
  • Tinamba West
  • Toolome
  • Toombon
  • Toongabbie
  • Valencia Creek
  • Walhalla
  • Walhalla East
  • Woods Point
  • Woolenook
  • Worrowing
  • Wrathung
  • Wrixon
  • Yangoura

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:

  • west of Licola
  • north-west of Glenmaggie

Within the Licola, Heyfield and Maffra dingo predation management zone there is 176,377 hectares of public land, 73,803 hectares of land under the 3 km livestock protection buffer and 46,442 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