A man has been bitten on the leg by a dingo in the third attack in as many weeks at a popular Queensland tourist spot.<\/p>\n
The man was standing next to his car in the Hook Point barge area at Fraser Island, which has the Indigenous name K’gari, when a dingo approached after 10am on Monday.<\/p>\n
Queensland Parks and Wildlife Services (QPWS) said the animal bit him on the back of the leg but left the area after the man got back in his vehicle.<\/p>\n
Staff at the barge provided first aid for the man.<\/p>\n
QPWS rangers are investigating.<\/p>\n
There have been six dingo-related incidents on K’gari since December 10.<\/p>\n
All the other incidents involved children, including a five-year-old girl.<\/p>\n
Last week a primary school-aged girl was taken to hospital with “significant” leg wounds after a dingo bit her multiple times when she was swimming near Hook Point.<\/p>\n
Rangers and the local Butchula Aboriginal Corporation are considering using tracking collars among other options to monitor the movements if the animals.<\/p>\n
But they have rejected calls to cull any of the estimated 200 dingoes on K’gari, blaming visitor behaviour for a spike in incidents.<\/p>\n
A series of incidents in 2023 led rangers to euthanise a dingo that had bitten a woman on the thigh while she was visiting the island.<\/p>\n
QPWS have urged people to be “dingo safe” by walking in groups, camping in fenced areas and not running on the heritage-listed island.<\/p>\n
Children should be kept under constant supervision and within arm’s reach on K’gari.<\/p>\n
QPWS said it was important to keep all food, rubbish and bait locked up and never to feed the animals.<\/p>\n