Animal Management Plan
Kangaroo Island Animal Management Plan 2017 - 2022
Kangaroo Island’s unique and isolated environment requires specific measures to protect its ecology such as maintaining the exclusion of rabbits, deer and foxes, the regulated keeping of goats, and management of the Ligurian bee population. Control of these factors has supported healthy environments and populations of many native species which are either not found in other parts of Australia, or are very rare.
The Kangaroo Island Council Animal Management Plan 2017-2022 coincides with the revision of the South Australia Government revision of its Dog & Cat Management Act and with Council’s review of its Local Government By-laws, and maintains the direction and momentum set by its previous 2005 and 2010 versions – enhancing the provisions of animal management direction in accordance with relevant state legislation including the SA Dog & Cat Management Act, the Natural Resources Management Act 2004 and the Local Government Act 1999.
This plan seeks to ensure that dogs and cats are managed in a responsible manner, and that other domestic animals on Kangaroo Island are kept responsibly and ethically, ensuring minimal impact to residents, communities, the environment, biosecurity and the Island’s economy.
There are further specific animal management By-laws relevant to dogs, cats and keeping of livestock, fowl and bees.
The plan compliments the operation of other legislation and the interface with the operations and strategic directions of Landscape South Australia - Kangaroo Island, the South Australia Dog & Cat Management Board and the Department for Primary Industries and Regions South Australia.
Related Links
KI Council By-law No. 5 – Dogs