Ovens dingo predation management zone

Work plan 2026–27Map of the Ovens Dingo Predation Management Zone for 2026–2027

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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 Ovens dingo predation management zone include:

  • Abbeyard
  • Allans Flat
  • Barwidgee
  • Bobinawarrah
  • Bogong
  • Bowmans Forest
  • Bright
  • Bruarong
  • Buckland
  • Buffalo River
  • Carboor
  • Coral Bank
  • Dandongadale
  • Dederang
  • Edi Upper
  • Eskdale
  • Eurobin
  • Everton
  • Falls Creek
  • Freeburgh
  • Gapsted
  • Germantown
  • Glen Creek
  • Gundowring
  • Harrietville
  • Havilah
  • Hotham Heights
  • Kancoona
  • Kergunyah
  • Kergunyah South
  • Kiewa
  • Markwood
  • Merriang
  • Merriang South
  • Mitta Mitta
  • Mongans Bridge
  • Mount Beauty
  • Mount Buffalo
  • Mudgegonga
  • Myrtleford
  • Nelse
  • Nug Nug
  • Osbornes Flat
  • Ovens
  • Porepunkah
  • Rose River
  • Rosewhite
  • Running Creek
  • Selwyn
  • Smoko
  • Stanley
  • Tawonga
  • Tawonga South
  • Upper Gundowring
  • Wabonga
  • Wandiligong
  • Whorouly
  • Whorouly East
  • Whorouly South
  • Yackandandah.

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:

  • between Mudgegonga and Running Creek
  • east of Carboor
  • west of Eurobin
  • east of Running Creek
  • east and west of Tawonga
  • north-east, east and south-east of Dandongadale

Within the Ovens dingo predation management zone there is 226,052 hectares of public land, 159,326 hectares of land under the 3 km livestock protection buffer and 94,831 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