Wataka Australia—Humane Feral Animal Control in Townsville

Servicing rural landholders and businesses.

Contact our animal control experts

Our humane animal control service includes professional shooting and hunting services for population control or eradication of pest animals. Shooting is carried out by trained and experienced professional shooters. Depending upon the pest species and location associated OH&S risks, we have a range of firearms available and utilise the most suitable to meet, but not exceed, the requirement.

Feral cats, other than a domestic cat
Feral dogs, other than a domestic dog
Feral pigs
Foxes
Feral horses
Camels
Chital (axis) deer
Donkeys
European hares
Fallow deer
Hog deer
Rabbits

Animal Control

We provide human feral animal control solutions for rural landholders and businesses.

Legalities

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Code of Conduct

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Legalities

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Licensing:

WATAKA AUSTRALIA, as professional contract shooters engaged or employed to control

vertebrate pest animals on rural and non-rural land (such as residential rural zone areas), and are holders of a:

QLD Firearms Licence for Category A, B and/or C, D firearms
QLD SSAA member
Conservation & Wildlife Management Qld (CWM) (this is a competence reference only)
WATAKA AUSTRALIA is in NO WAY WHATSOEVER a part of CWM or endorsed by CWM, we donate our time for free.)
QLD High risk work Licence

Insurance and Risk Mitigation

Whilst the majority of rural landholders are used to being approached to allow recreational

hunters to operate upon their properties, the risks associated with allowing potentially

unlicensed, uninsured or poorly disciplined shooters upon your property is greatly outweighed by the potentially catastrophic financial and legal consequences to your property, stock or persons. As a registered business holding $20,000,000 public liability insurance, engaging the services of WATAKA AUSTRALIA comes without these potential risks that using recreational hunters entails.

WATAKA AUSTRALIA operates to the following code of conduct:

Customer confidentiality

WATAKA AUSTRALIA will operate with confidentiality in regard to the work conducted for a client. Whilst all work will be in compliance with relevant legislation, some sectors of the greater community may not be in agreement with these activities, hence the need for confidentiality.

Awareness of relevant legislation

It is our responsibility that WATAKA AUSTRALIA will be aware of and comply with all relevant legislation relating to hunting, animal welfare and the use of firearms.

Safe handling of firearms

Where firearms are used, the rules for safe handling set out in the QLD Firearms Safety Awareness handbook, published by or under the authority of the Commissioner of Police must be complied with at all times.

Target identification and safety

An animal to be targeted will not be fired at unless it can be clearly seen and identified with a safe backstop, and the shot taken poses no discernible risk of injury to any person or damage to any property.

Obligation to avoid suffering

An animal being hunted must not be inflicted with unnecessary pain. To achieve the aim of delivering a humane death to a targeted animal:

It will be targeted so that a humane kill is likely;
It will be shot within the reasonably accepted killing range of the firearm and ammunition, or bow being used; and,
the firearm, ammunition, or bow and arrow, will be such as can be reasonable expected to humanely kill on animal of the target species.

Wounded animals

If an animal is wounded, WATAKA AUSTRALIA will take all reasonable steps to locate it so that it can be killed quickly and humanely.

Lactating female with dependent young

If a lactating female is killed, every reasonable effort must be made to locate and dispatch any dependent young.

Our privacy commitment at WATAKA AUSTRALIA - ABN 30 114 500 749, is that we are committed to high standards of conduct in all our business activities, which includes protecting your privacy in accordance with the applicable privacy law.

Wade D Smith

Firearms Licence 26616056

SSAA Member 533941

Mobile: 0409 072 025

Email: wade1smith@hotmail.com