A person has been bitten on the leg by a dingo within the third assault in as many weeks at a preferred Queensland vacationer spot.

The person was standing subsequent to his automobile within the Hook Level barge space at Fraser Island, which has the Indigenous title Okay’gari, when a dingo approached after 10am on Monday.

Queensland Parks and Wildlife Providers (QPWS) stated the animal bit him on the again of the leg however left the world after the person acquired again in his automobile.

Workers on the barge offered first assist for the person.

QPWS rangers are investigating.

There have been six dingo-related incidents on Okay’gari since December 10.

All the opposite incidents concerned kids, together with a five-year-old lady.

Final week a main school-aged lady was taken to hospital with “important” leg wounds after a dingo bit her a number of occasions when she was swimming close to Hook Level.

Rangers and the native Butchula Aboriginal Company are contemplating utilizing monitoring collars amongst different choices to observe the actions if the animals.

However they’ve rejected calls to cull any of the estimated 200 dingoes on Okay’gari, blaming customer behaviour for a spike in incidents.

A sequence of incidents in 2023 led rangers to euthanise a dingo that had bitten a lady on the thigh whereas she was visiting the island.

QPWS have urged folks to be “dingo secure” by strolling in teams, tenting in fenced areas and never working on the heritage-listed island.

Youngsters ought to be saved beneath fixed supervision and inside arm’s attain on Okay’gari.

QPWS stated it was essential to maintain all meals, garbage and bait locked up and by no means to feed the animals.

This article was first revealed by The Each day Mail on 15 January 2024. Lead Picture: A person has been bitten on the leg within the newest assault by a dingo on Okay’gari. -PR Handout Picture.

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