Hi All,

I'm wanting to hear from anyone who conducts, or has conducted any
sort of feral animal control in small or large bushland reserves in
residential areas. We have been doing bits and pieces of feral
animal control (foxes, cats, rabbits, rats etc) on the Mornington
Peninsula for a number of years for a variety of reasons, from
protecting rare orchids from rabbit grazing to fox control for small
mammal protection. Most of this work up until now has only been
conducted in larger reserves generally away from heavilly populated
residential areas, but taking into account that the majority of our
Bushland Reserves are within residential areas, we have been fairly
limited in what we can do.

It would be interesting to hear from others who have been involved in
these kind of works, in particular the sort of response you have had
in regards to the feral populations, involvement from the community,
other successes and failures and generally anything else that you
think could be worth sharing. Feral animal control is an important
factor in biodiversity conservation, and something that can often be
put on the back shelf for bush regenerators.

I look forward to hearing your experiences and views.

Cheers

Sam Hand
Conservation Officer
Mornington Peninsula Shire