The Professional Wild Dog Controller Program is a joint effort between the Hunter Valley Combined Wild Dog Association (containing 11 member organisations), Hunter Local Land Services and a number of major stakeholder investors, working with landholders across a diverse landscape and tenure to protect livestock in the Upper Hunter.

The four-year program expands on present control arrangements and integrates with existing local wild dog management plans. From this Expression of Interest period, a pool of Professional Wild Dog Controllers is established to participate in both strategic, planned periods of control work and also reactive work in direct response to livestock attacks.