Policy and procedural guidelines for the mitigation of commercial crop damage by flying-foxes

This policy provides for licences to shoot flying-foxes to be issued to prevent flying-fox damage to commercial crops.

Date
1 July 2015
Publisher
Office of Environment and Heritage
Type
Publication, Policies and guidelines, Policy
Cost
Free
Language
English
Tags
  • ISBN 978-1-76039-042-6
  • ID OEH20150421
  • File PDF 318KB
  • Pages 9
  • Name flying-fox-crop-damage-mitigation-150421.pdf

 

While OEH maintains that shooting is not a sustainable crop management strategy, this policy makes provision to issue licences for growers to kill a limited number of flying-foxes by shooting, where special circumstance conditions are met.