A former SPCA general manager has been ordered to pay $7000 in legal costs, despite being earlier awarded $500 by the ERA.

Jim Eagles grabs his binoculars and enjoys the spectacular and prolific birdlife on Queensland's Fraser Island.

A farmer says he will shoot poachers' dogs after seeing too many savaged livestock caused by illegal hunters on private farms.

"I bow to no man or beast, but respect all who rock before me," wrote an American alligator trainer not long before he was attacked by a 2.4m reptile.