Rangers with a licence to kill were patrolling Karijini National Park, about 250 kilometres south of Port Hedland, as the problem animals remained at large overnight.
Fearless dingoes have been filmed circling at the Dales Gorge Campground.
“Everything’s scarier at night time and the kids were scared for the first time in their lives,” camper Drue Ballantyne said.
His family of five spent a sleepless night crammed into a swag.
“It was trying to get through the swags, my partner used his headtorch and long stick to create that distance, said ‘Oi’ and it went away,” she said.
In the past week alone, there’ve been three dingo attacks at the remote campsite.
On Wednesday night, a four-year-old girl was bitten on the leg and her mother was nipped trying to protect her.
Both were taken to Tom Price Hospital in the nearby town of the same name.
On Monday, a six-year-old who was bitten on the neck and arm also needed hospital treatment.
Last Saturday, a six-year-old girl approached by an aggressive dingo had her clothing nipped but escaped unhurt.
“They can become habituated and can get quite dangerous in places where they learn to associate people with food and people don’t want to give up that food,” Ecosure dingo expert Dr Benjamin Allen said.
Rangers are now conducting nightly patrols aiming to track down the problem dingoes and humanely destroy them.
“Campers travelling with young children will be offered the option of relocating to another campground within the park,” WA Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions spokesperson Hamish Robertson said.
It’s not the first time dingoes have been an issue inside Karijini. Three years ago a toddler was mauled and left with serious injuries.
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