The Dingo's Fate
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·March 30, 2025mig39
bacheaul
Looks like that's a different, though equally impressive fence... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo_Fence
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EdwardDiego
There's an amazing yet heart-breaking film by the same name.
nineteen999
You are thinking of the Great Wall of China.
throwaway422432
The exclusion fence has unfortunately suffered extensive damage in the Western Queensland flooding this week, and will likely result in wild dog incursions in multiple places.
sien
There is an excellent book about this. 'The New Wild' by Fred Pearce is well worth a read.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22716462-the-new-wild
We shouldn't introduce species deliberately in new places, but in many places species have taken off and should be accepted.
dntbrsnbl
To be honest, I don't think I buy this. I'm from NZ and we have a number of introduced species (possums, stoats) which have a dramatic impact on the native wildlife.
A lot of bird species in NZ are unique and only found here. They're almost all critically endangered or at risk [1], as they evolved with no natural predators.
I'd rather we try and control these introduced species so we can keep (at least some of) our native birds.
[1]: https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/conservation-status/threatene...
waste_monk
Perhaps you should fight fire with fire - export NZ native wildlife around the world and hopefully it'll become invasive and flourish somewhere else! It worked well enough for Australia [1]!
[1] https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-envir...
(I shouldn't need to say this, but this is a joke and should not be taken as environmental policy :) )
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> Remarkably, the longest fence in the world was built and is maintained for a single purpose: to protect Australia’s pastoral heartlands from the depredations of a canine.
I thought it was built to keep rabbits out?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-proof_fence