Omeo, Swifts Creek and Benambra dingo predation management zone

Work plan 2025–26

Omeo Swifts Creek and Benambra DPMZ

Omeo, Swifts Creek and Benambra dingo predation management zone work plan document and map [PDF File - 1.4 MB]

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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 Omeo, Swifts Creek and Benambra dingo predation management zone include:

  • Anglers Rest
  • Benambra
  • Bindi
  • Bingo Munjie
  • Brookville
  • Brumby
  • Buchan
  • Buchan South
  • Bundara
  • Cassilis
  • Cobberas
  • Cobungra
  • Dargo
  • Dartmouth
  • Deptford
  • Dinner Plain
  • Doctors Flat
  • Double Bridges
  • Ensay
  • Ensay North
  • Glen Valley
  • Glen Wills
  • Hinnomunjie
  • Hotham Heights
  • Mitta Mitta
  • Nariel Valley
  • Nelse
  • Nunniong
  • Omeo
  • Omeo Valley
  • Reedy Flat
  • Shannonvale
  • Stirling
  • Swifts Creek
  • Tambo Crossing
  • Timbarra
  • Tongio
  • Wentworth

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:

  • north, east and south of Benambra
  • south of Anglers Rest
  • north of Cobungra
  • south-east of Bindi
  • east and west of Tongio
  • north-east and south-west of Swifts Creek
  • surrounding Ensay
  • east, south and west of Brookville.

Within the Omeo, Swifts Creek, Ensay and Benambra dingo predation management zone there is 256,069 hectares of public land, 176,894 hectares of land under the 3 km livestock protection buffer and 135,904 hectares of private land. There are 2 Vertebrate Species Management Officers and 204 km of targeted ground-baiting transects.

There are three community Vertebrate Species control groups located within the Omeo, Swifts Creek and Ensay dingo predation management zone. The Omeo and Benambra Community Vertebrate Species Control group includes private land near Cobungra, Omeo and Benambra. The Swifts Creek Community Vertebrate Species Control groups include private land near Bindi, Tongio, Swifts Creek and Brookville. The Ensay Community Vertebrate Species Control group includes private land near Ensay and Tambo Crossing.

The map should be read in conjunction with the accompanying Omeo, Swifts Creek, Ensay and Benambra dingo predation management zone plan.

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: 03 Dec 2025