Push for ban on poison 1080 in Victoria’s alpine region as animals recover from bushfires

A Victorian MP is pushing for the poison, 1080, to be banned in Victoria’s alpine region as it recovers from devastating bushfires.

The Legislative Council is sitting in Bright today, and Animal Justice Party’s Andy Meddick is using the first sitting in the regions since 2012 to push for the ban.

It follows the discovery of a number of endangered alpine dingoes in north-east Victoria, which Mr Meddick said are vulnerable to the bait.

He argued that the region would benefit from the ban as it recovers from bushfires.