CG Day 1 - A famous fence

Oyster Moon
Paul Foskett & Rhu Nash
Wed 5 Dec 2012 05:32
This is probably the world’s most famous fence. This runs virtually across the bottom part of E Australia. It’s the fence that the Australians built to exclude dingo's from about a quarter of Australia. The fence is about 5,300 km long and the world’s longest man-made structure. It stretched from Jimbour on the Daring Downs, near Dalby, to the cliffs of the Nullarbor Plain on the Eyre Peninsula and goes through Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia.  It was built to protect sheep industry from dingo's.  It was successful but led to big increase in grass eating kangaroos and also small feral animal like foxes, thee have predated on smaller mammal so that lot of species are now endangered. Being top predator dingo kept smaller predators and kangaroo numbers down. Now a big debate going on as to whether to reintroduce dingo’ or keep them excluded.  If you are really interested read this (hope the link works!)   Role of dingo in Australia or Are dingo's a trophic predator all very fascinating!
 
Dingo barrier Fence about 8 km west of Injun.
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