The dingo attacked a woman on a beach in the most recent ‘serious’ incident.
The department said rangers asked people to not prepare or eat food in the dingo’s habitat of the Eli Creek area.But the animal “continued its pattern of negative interactions towards people with a series of threatening and high-risk interactions recorded involving children, adults, and rangers, including six high-risk interactions,” the department said.The department said euthanising the dingo was the “last resort”.
That prompted a warning for people not to walk alone on K’gari and to also carry a stick at all times.A 23-year-old woman was attacked by a pack of four dingoes while jogging near Orchid Beach in July.An eight-year-old boy was also bitten on the buttocks and lower back when he was approached by two dingoes in July.
In June, a 10-year-old boy was bitten and dragged underwater while in April, a French tourist was bitten on the buttocks while sunbathing.