Kangaroo tracking will begin on the New South Wales north coast in the next fortnight, as part of a wider Coffs Harbour Kangaroo Management Plan being overseen by the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS).

The service is working with other wildlife organisations, such as the Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Service, as well as the University of New England (UNE) to develop an effective control method, after a number of people were attacked by kangaroos in the region.

NPWS area manager Glenn Storrie said a lot of thought had been put into the best way to contain kangaroo numbers.

"We wanted to come up with a planned way on how we could reduce attacks and keep a sustainable and flourishing population of kangaroos," he said.

"We're at the stage where the students are going to place trackers on kangaroos to see where they go."

Kangaroos will be caught by darting them and fitting them with a small tracking device, which will allow researchers to follow the animals' movements day and night.

"All of this is undertaken with the greatest of care. There are animal ethics approvals that are required before anyone can undertake this sort of thing," Mr Storrie said.

He said residents were likely to find the small trackers with the UNE logo on the ground, and asked that they be returned to the UNE campus.

"The trackers are actually designed to fall off," he said.

"So please return them to the university. That box contains really useful information."

The NPWS said it had put a call out to landowners on the north coast living in areas with a high density kangaroo population to volunteer their property as a site for darting and fitting the animals.