Information about Wombats for Australian farmers and graziers

Landholders, Farmers & Graziers.

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The Wombat Protection Society of Australia recognises that many wombats reside on private land and that the protection of these wombats depends on the good will of landowners.

Many of our members are landholders and farmers and we encourage people managing land where wombats reside to join with us and promote wombats and overcome issues that arise in the interface of wombat habitat and land management.

The Society is keen to work with landholders to resolve problems on the interface of wombat habitat and human farming/land use practises.

The responsible management of wombats, rather than destruction practices have many benefits for the landowner. This is discussed further down the page.

Below are links to information that we hope will assist landowners to responsibly manage the native wombat population on their property.

The Society appreciates the many farmers and landholders who do protect wombats and their habitat. An award system for landowners and managers who have taken steps to protect wombats or their habitat was approved by the Board in 2010.

If you wish to nominate a landholder or group for the award, please contact us.

Australia has a sad history of not working with its native animal populations.
During the last century Government incentives and requirements encouraged farmers and others to exterminate marsupials.

As a result little information was developed realising the benefits of wombats and other marsupials for land management.

In some areas even in this century Government nstrumentalities allow permits to kill native animals.

These practises often cause more problems for the landowner than they solve. They place Australian products like milk and cheese, wool crop and meat production at risk as consumers are no longer prepared to allow native animals to be killed.

Australia has taken the lead in objecting to a rage of animal cruelty practises such as whaling and is held to be hypocritical when shooting and poisoning of wombats is condoned.

As a direct result of past and some current Government practises and policies, landholders have been forced to kill native animals and taught only the nuisance value of these animals on their farm and lands.

Campaigns based on fear and ignorance were dished out to farmers and landholders for almost all of the last century.

It is important that those who seek to change attitudes and behaviours recognise that it will take time to help landholders manage the change in consumer sentiment and Australia's credibility when making ethical stands on behalf of other country's creatures.