Notification of 1080 Poison Baiting Program (Rabbits), Adelaide Hills, Murraylands and Limestone Coast, South Australia, November 2024 to January 2025

We will be carrying out an essential rabbit baiting program November 2024 through to April 2025 through the Adelaide Hills, Murraylands and Limestone Coast (maps attached for exact locations).

Baiting will commence from 6:00am, Monday 25^th November 2024 and continue through until Wednesday 30^th April 2025. (Weather permitting)

1080 poison which will be used in this rabbit baiting program pose an extreme risk to your livestock and domestic dogs.  Please take steps (ie restraint or muzzling) to make sure your animals do not have access to the rail corridor, baits or affected animals.

The rabbit baits will be left in place until they are taken or collected where appropriate.  All baits including rabbit carcasses can remain toxic for at least 12 months, even after rain.

ARTC will place baits at least 150m from dwellings (other than railway dwellings) or public buildings, and 20m from permanent or flowing water bodies, and roadways.  ARTC will be erecting warning signs of the poison baits at level crossings entry’s and around the rail corridor boundary where appropriate.

Toxin:                          1080

Target Animal:             Rabbit

Bait Type:                    Oats

Situation:                     Railway corridor, especially near to known rabbit grazing areas

Please advise all other people on your property about this baiting program and the risk to dogs.

If you would like to discuss further, please contact the ARTC Community Line at community@artc.com.au

Baiting Locations

Rabbit baiting merged pdf