Greens senator Peter Whish-Wilson wants Tasmania to adopt a policy already rolled out in Sydney.
Australian Greens senator Peter Whish-Wilson says an army sniper could be used to kill dogs preying on penguins in Tasmania's north-west.
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A local resident of the Tasmanian town of Stanley found 14 dead penguins at a penguin viewing area on Sunday night. The penguins are believed to have been killed by dogs in the area.
"It is time to take stronger action than mitigation measures to make it's harder for the dogs to get into penguin burrows," senator Whish-Wilson told the ABC.
"We could train guard dogs to protect the penguin burrows as has been done in some other places or we could, like they did in 2009 and 2015 in Sydney, hire professional snipers to shoot rogue dogs."
"The little penguins simply cannot defend themselves against dogs."
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