NOTICE OF 1080 BAITING
Please find attached notification of continuous and ongoing fox control using 1080 POISON with ground baits and canid pest ejectors (CPE’s) in Sydney Harbour National Park, Garigal National Park, Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, and Lane Cove National Park. As part of this program, baiting also occurs on North Head Sanctuary managed by Sydney Harbour Federation Trust and the Australian Institute of Police Management facility at North Head.
This email provides notification for the 6 monthly period of 1 February 2024 – 31 July 2024 . Please note, due to privacy and requests recipients are Bcc’d in the email.
Warning signs are displayed at park entrances and other entrances to the baiting location to inform the public of 1080 baiting.
1080 Poison for fox control is used in these reserves in a continuous and ongoing manner. This means that baits and ejectors (CPE’s) remain in the reserves and are checked/replaced every 6 – 8 weeks.
1080 use at these locations is in accordance with NSW pesticides legislation, relevant 1080 Pesticide Control Orders and the NPWS Vertebrate Pesticides Standard Operating Procedures.
A series of public notifications occur on a 6 monthly basis including; alerts on the NPWS website, public notices in local papers (the Mosman Daily & North Shore Times), Area pesticide use notification registers and to the NPWS call centre.
If you have any further general enquiries about 1080 please feel free to contact Steve Parker on 0447 212 652, or for specific program enquiries please contact the local NPWS Area office:
For further information please call the local NPWS office on:
NPWS Sydney North (Middle Head) Area office: 9960 6266
NPWS Sydney North (Forestville) Area office: 9451 3479
NPWS North West Sydney (Lane Cove NP) Area office: 8448 0400
NPWS after-hours Duty officer service: 1300 056 294
Sydney Harbour Federation Trust: 8969 2128
