Georges River Council
The Wildlife Protection Area Policy 2022 aims to protect local biodiversity, and the natural environment within the local government area.
Georges River Council Mayor, Nick Katris said, “The conservation of our bushland and biodiversity is important to maintaining a sustainable environment for our future.
“By working together to reduce threats to our wildlife, we can protect the native, threatened and vulnerable species in our community.”
The adoption of the Wildlife Protection Area Policy 2022 contributes to Council’s overarching Community Strategic Plan 2019-2028 through the following initiatives in 19 Parks and Reserves:
- Monitoring and enforcement of roaming cats and off-leash dogs to support native wildlife and the natural environment, as well as working to protect wildlife through signage;
- Improving accessibility of public reserves by reducing unwanted interactions between the community and roaming cats and/or off-leash dogs;
- Ensuring dogs are restrained on leashes except in designated off-leash areas and prohibiting cats from declared Wildlife Protection Areas inline with the NSW Companion Animals Act 1998;
- Encouraging the community to properly contain cats and report Feral cats through Feral Scan.
To read the full Wildlife Protection Area Policy 2022, visit Council’s policy webpage
/Public Release. View in full here.
