The issue is that trappers, like other agricultural workers, including shearers and wool handlers, are not currently considered by Queensland to be part of an essential industry. The employer must also have a quarantine management plan that complies with the form approved by the Chief Health Officer (DOCX). Workers applying for an exemption to work in Queensland must be vaccinated at least once and demonstrate why the services are needed and cannot be obtained in Queensland, why they must be provided without delay and why the worker’s physical presence is needed. The movement of Queensland-based dog trappers into the area has been restricted by uncertainty around re-entry requirements such as vaccination, quarantining and an exemption from the Queensland Chief Health Officer. However, another Stanthorpe-based trapper has elected to stay at home after being told by Queensland border police he would be sent to Sydney and then Brisbane for quarantining if he tried to cross the border to return home after working his NSW trap lines. Some producers were relieved this week when at least one trapper based at Wallangarra in Queensland resumed trapping in the Tenterfield area following an escalation in stock losses over recent weeks. NORTHERN New South Wales sheep producers are losing livestock to unchecked wild dog attacks as the Queensland-NSW COVID-19 border restrictions hamper trapper movements. Philip Joens covers breaking news for The Des Moines Register.A wild dog captured on film in northern NSW. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Quick, 33, reportedly had a fatal heart attack after being mauled when he intervened.Īccording to, 51 people were killed in dog attacks in 2021, although the group says on its website that last year's incidents are still being reviewed, and there were 46 fatal dog attacks in 2020. Robert Joseph Quick of Dallas City, Illinois, was at a Fort Madison home in May 2019 when a dog attacked his daughters. This is the sixth fatal dog attack in Iowa since 2010, according to Texas nonprofit, which tracks news reports of dog-bite-related fatalities and supports restrictive dog ordinances, and first since 2019. More: Iowa History Month: The Meskwaki remain dedicated to land and culture Fatal dog attacks in Iowa Elevate, a crisis team from Waterloo, is also offering its services and can be reached at (855) 581-8111. The police department said in a Facebook post Tuesday that mental health therapists from the Meskwaki Health Clinic are available for community members experiencing mental or emotional strains because of the attack they can be reached at (641) 484-9400. The unincorporated settlement is located about 3 miles northwest of Tama and about 65 miles northeast of Des Moines.

The Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa, or Meskwaki Nation, which has about 1,400 enrolled tribal members, is the only federally recognized tribe in Iowa and privately owns more than 8,000 acres of land in Tama County. 'Everybody at the police department knew this woman.' 'It's horrific.' said Molitor, who declined to name the breeds involved but said the dogs were located and destroyed Monday. A Facebook post from the department described the incident as a 'vicious dog attack' that took place near Springs Road, a short roadway that connects with Meskwaki Road near the settlement's tribal center.Īuthorities had not released the age or identity of the woman as of Tuesday afternoon. 'More than five' dogs mauled the woman near her home on Monday afternoon, chief Jacob Molitor said. A pack of feral dogs attacked and killed a woman from the Meskwaki Settlement in Tama County on Monday, according to the chief of the Meskwaki Nation Police Department.

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