Dogs in Nature Reserves

Dogs are not permitted in nature reserves in W.A. My daughter went through all the drama of finding out exactly where and where not her dog could travel with her. In the end she saw common sense and did not take her dogs into any park or nature reserve. No big issue as she realised that dogs are not human and these reserves are only for native wild life. She traveled all throughout W.A for 12 months and although traveling with her dog had some limitations she found that by meeting other people who could baby sit her dog and vica versa, she got to experience many of the nature parks she wanted to visit.

all good, got hold of DBCA for confirmation. Their website wasn't very clear, but now all sorted.

Answer is no they can't due to 1080

Hi Austag,

Every Nature Reserve I have used for camping, has signage at the entrance stating No Pets. Baiting is only part of the reason, but is used to discourage people from disobeying the “rule”. Pets, like dogs and cats, apart from potentially injuring or killing small native species, leave traces of them having been there, and deters native species from using the Nature Reserve as a safe haven.

Macca.