- Louise Romanin
- 19 December, 2025
- 9:55 am
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Partnerships Against Foxes - Workshops Complete!
We have finished the year on a high note with two successful community fox strategy workshops aimed at building collaborative partnerships and exploring ideas on how to more effectively implement fox control throughout East Gippsland. The workshops were held at the Moogji Operations Centre & Nursery in Orbost and at the Wildlife Unlimited Office in Bairnsdale. A big thank you to Moogji for hosting us.
Representatives from Moogji and Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust ranger groups, DEECA, Landcare, EcoLogic NRM, EGCMA and community members spent their valuable time with us. Each participant brought with them their own background knowledge and experience as well as different perspectives on fox control.
Left: Workshop participants at Moogji (Image: L. Romanin) Right: Workshop held at the Wildlife Unlimited offices (Image: Robyn Edwards)
We are so grateful for the input from Andy Murray (DEECA) at the workshops. He presented up to date information on the current fox control works in East Gippsland conducted through the Southern Ark project and reminding us of the plethora of native species that benefit from fox control. Effective landscape scale fox control will protect native animals including threatened species such as Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby and Spot-tailed Quoll and reduce livestock losses for agriculturalists.
We are collating the ideas we’ve gathered will be writing the fox control strategy over summer. We’ll have a draft for community consultation and feedback ready in early 2026.
FoxScan
We held two workshops earlier in the year to encourage community members to use the FeralScan app to record their fox (and other feral species) observations and fox control efforts. Data from this app is shared within biodiversity data networks. Data from the app is uploaded to the Atlas of Living Australia every 6 months. Important species distribution data is obtained from FeralScan and can be used to better plan feral animal control efforts and track the spread of invasive species.
If you don’t have the app on your phone yet we encourage you to get involved in this citizen science effort. Get it here FeralScan
This Partnerships Against Foxes program is supported by the Victorian Government through the AgVic - Partnerships Against Pests Program
