Land Management

Business owner David Hebbermann is a very experienced land management professional, with many years experience working on the land on the Fraser Coast. This includes approximately 10 years hands-on land maintenance (spraying, slashing, mowing, mulching) as well as general earthworks and feral exclusion fencing. He understands the importance of land management, being born and bred farmer himself.

Hebbermann has been operating since 2008, with ongoing work and supplier contracts with DNRME, Ergon Energy, Fraser Coast Regional Council and Maryborough Sugar Factory.

We hope to bring this service to local councils and governments Australia Wide. We are licensed to provide these services to urban areas.

Feral Exclusion Fencing

Whether you need to keep pests in or out of an area, this fence will do it! We can producing fencing for your property that is designed to keep out feral animals and pests, taking an active step to prevent the problem before it arises.

Fencing/netting can provide effective protection from pest animals in a certain, well-defined area, but it requires ongoing maintenance, and pest animal numbers are not reduced. It does however effectively reduce pest damage. For example, a wild dog barrier fence, managed by Biosecurity Queensland, protects sheep grazing areas of southern and south-western Queensland and is supported by a network of local government managed, wild dog check fences.

Another example, a rabbit fence, managed by the Darling Downs-Moreton Rabbit Board, protects agricultural land in south-eastern Queensland.

Feral Animal Control

With current demand increasing on Fraser Coast and throughout Australia for feral animal control, Hebbermann Contracting has expanded into these services country wide, in order to provide a more comprehensive land management service:

• Professional ground and aerial shooting.
• Automated corral traps and trapping services.
• Night Shooting programs with spot lights and night vision equipment .
• Property analysis and data collection program
• Aerial and ground mustering

Dave Hebberman has extensive experience with shooting form the ground as well as aircraft, with knowledge on which weapon is best suited to each unique situation. Dave is also 100% legally certified to perform the above services, including shooting to humanely destroy animals, and also use firearms for pest control activities from an aircraft.

Target Species:

• Foxes
• Feral pigs
• Donkeys
• Buffalo
• Wild dogs
• Feral goats
• Deer
• Pest animals
• Feral cats
• Camels
• Rabbits
• Feral Horses

This service is perfect for owners of:

• Graziers.
• Cattle farms.
• Crop farms.
• Collectives of landholders who all contribute to feral animal control.
• Larger companies with land.

Invasive (pest) animals have significant economic, environmental and social impacts throughout Australia, especially for the country’s primary industries, natural ecosystems, and human and animal health. Costing an estimated $797 million per year in damages, with some invasive animals becoming  a general nuisance and interfere with the liveability of urban and rural residential areas.

Some of the negative impacts of invasive animals include:

• Destruction of habitats and natural resources including reduction in water quality, increased soil erosion and land degradation, and destruction of native plants that provide food and shelter to native species.
• Competition with native animals for food and shelter.
• Destruction of pastures and crops.
• Creation of general nuisance in urban and rural residential areas and associated management.
• Reduction of nature-based tourism due to destruction of natural resources.
• Potential and actual disease transmission.
• Predation of, and attacks on, domestic poultry and small pets.
• Creation of dangerous driving conditions – invasive animals often wander onto roads, and locust swarms reduce visibility.
• Reduction of the community’s enjoyment of natural areas.
• General nuisance and disturbance in urban areas.
• Increased cost of managing these species.