Rangers tracked down the 58-year-old after he was filmed trying to entice and feed two dingoes, known as wongari, at Eastern Beach last Thursday.

The Queensland man was issued a $2476 fine the next day following a tip-off from a member of the public.

The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service said rangers would closely monitor the two dingoes to ensure they retained their natural wariness of humans and did not start approaching people on the Heritage Listed site, formerly known as Fraser Island.

“This man has made a dangerous decision to feed and interact with wongari, and his actions could cause legacy issues on the island,” manager compliance optimisation Mike Devery said.

“It can take one incident like this to set wongari on the path to habituation and now these wongari have been fed, they might associate people with food.”

Mr Devery said rangers could not believe someone would deliberately feed dingoes after media publicity about attacks in recent months.

Rangers euthanised a third K’gari dingo this year after a number of high-risk incidents involving the species, including biting a woman on a beach.

The action at the weekend came after months of behavioural problems by dingoes, including stealing food, stalking, circling, lunging, nipping and biting, the Department of Environment and Science said.

One of the more serious attacks included a woman taken to hospital with bites after she was attacked by at least three dingoes while jogging on an eastern beach.

Despite the growing number of attacks, rangers have rejected calls to cull the dingo population on the island and blamed the behaviour of visitors.

“Sadly, we have euthanised three habituated wongari in 2023, including one at the weekend because people ignored the rules,” Mr Devery said.